{"id":6219,"date":"2023-03-26T19:56:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T02:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2023-03-26T19:56:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T02:56:50","slug":"niether-remain-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2023\/03\/niether-remain-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"niether remain the same"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my favorite differences between human being and trees is how I, as a human, can move around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trees are rooted. Definitively. Trees stay in the same spot. The choices for trees are narrow. Up&nbsp; and out are how trees move. And by \u2018move\u2019 I mean grow. They grow slowly and so they move slowly I have a lot more options.&nbsp; Since I don\u2019t have roots, I can go backwards and forwards and even jump levels. Up down and all around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What mostly happens though, is I keep going forward in the direction decided long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those choices I talked about last week? For my tree, they are permanent. The other trunks are cut off and will be no more. The tree is set in its course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me though, I could use the leg up that the choice gave me and get very good at the one direction I\u2019ve chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I could grow and expand in ways I hadn\u2019t dreamed up, getting strength and capabilities that were far out of reach before. I could get so good at all of it that it even gets boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, as I human I might make an exploration into that choice I\u2019d abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there something there for me now? Now that I\u2019ve become so strong and capable? What could happen if I came at this again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I\u2019m not a tree, it\u2019s not a dead branch. It could be &nbsp;a possibility now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve got different skills. I\u2019m not the same as I was when I had to abandon it before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This could be the right time for what was wrong before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can explore my world in human ways and see what I can make of it. What moves can I make now with what I\u2019ve got? Neither I nor the world have remained the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite differences between human being and trees is how I, as a human, can move around. Trees are rooted. Definitively. Trees stay in the same spot. The choices for trees are narrow. Up&nbsp; and out are how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2023\/03\/niether-remain-the-same\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6220,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}