{"id":479,"date":"2021-07-24T12:31:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2021-07-30T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T00:53:10","slug":"a-zen-for-all-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"A zen for all seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whenever I need a moment, I drive to a tiny overlook in the west side of Craig. There is room for two cars, but more often than not I have the space to myself. One of my favorite things about Craig is how small it is: I can drive to this spot, almost all the way across town, in less than five minutes. And I can see the edge of my world, because beyond the barrier islands is the open Pacific, next stop Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of Japan, I am reminded of the 2011 tsunami that hit them so very hard, and how much of their wreckage washed up on our shores a few months later. A fifth-grade student discovered a basketball, and her class found enough identifying information on it that they were able to send it home and make some cross-cultural friends in the bargain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On sunny days, I can see St. John (right foreground) and surrounding smaller islands, fishing boats, charter boats, skiffs, whales (sometimes), sea lions, seals, seagulls, ravens. . .and I notice how the fireweed blossoms are quietly scaling their summertime ladders, keeping a perfect record of the passage of the season. On stormy days I look out at the mist, and listen to the rain and the surf, and I know that those islands and those creatures haven\u2019t gone anywhere, and the boats are safe at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Zen-spot-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-477\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Fireweed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-475\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I need a moment, I drive to a tiny overlook in the west side of Craig. There is room for two cars, but more often than not I have the space to myself. One of my favorite things about Craig is how small it is: I can drive to this spot, almost all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,240,239],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-an-alaskan-educator-and-citizen","tag-alaska","tag-beautiful-view","tag-relaxing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}