{"id":6357,"date":"2023-09-13T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=6357"},"modified":"2023-09-11T20:40:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T03:40:58","slug":"thoughts-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2023\/09\/thoughts-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m hearing some people say that thoughts unspoken and not really thought. Writing it out is certainly better than getting my thought circulatory system clogged up with unthought ideas\u2026Or maybe I could say undigested thoughts.<br><br>I imagine getting backed up with thoughts or half-grown concepts and ideas begging for a chance to grow. Or dying like grass and cluttering my brain with underbrush that I\u2019ve not cleared away.<br><br>I do have a set of wonderful smart people with whom I can conversate. I love having long talks to think through what is going on in my mind, my life and the world. But the way things are in my life mostly I write things.<br><br>My world is small. I go very few places and see very few people. I would rather go more places and have adventures<br><br>However, my body is weak.  My mind is weak too. My edge is dull and so is my life. I\u2019m still thinking things. Often in the middle of the night when I can\u2019t sleep.<br> <br>There is a weird tangle of briar thoughts that I can\u2019t quite deal with. They can\u2019t quite finish growing and I can\u2019t quite find the time to finish the incomplete half thoughts I am thinking.<br><br>I had been accustomed to my body working a certain way, and even more so my brain. This medical treatment\u2014targeted poison\u2014has left me in a surreal twilight.<br><br>Just wait. This will pass.  Like the water crashing on the beach, leaving the sand rippling and smooth.<br><br>I do well not to focus on the crash, and to keep looking for the smooth ripple that will come.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m hearing some people say that thoughts unspoken and not really thought. Writing it out is certainly better than getting my thought circulatory system clogged up with unthought ideas\u2026Or maybe I could say undigested thoughts. I imagine getting backed up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2023\/09\/thoughts-3\/\">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-6357","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\/6357","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=6357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}