{"id":6777,"date":"2025-11-26T11:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:15:42","slug":"thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2025\/11\/thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/><br \/>I started during lockdown. I was isolated in the biggest city in the world-almost. Yes, my family was around me but I felt alone alone alone\u2014like the American homesteaders who lived 10 miles by buggy from the nearest neighbor. I could look out my door to see the long expanse of sky and land. And the shut houses of all my neighbors<br \/><br \/>I could see so far and there was no one to talk to. We were separated from each other by fears and regulations.<br \/><br \/>I stood at my porch withal those scary feelings.<br \/><br \/>For the first time realized the house faced the sunrise. I could see the sunrise like those prairie pioneers. I joined those hardworking courageous people in something better than isolation. <br \/><br \/>I began to take a photo of the sunrise with my phone from my porch each morning. How many days to start a habit? Or to flip it, how many days does a habit continue?<br \/><br \/>The lockdown is over but my pictures are still going.<br \/><br \/>I learned to frame the shot. As time passed, changes came. I trimmed my tree to keep it out of the skyline.<br \/><br \/>Framing the sky, I notice things.<br \/><br \/>The tilt of the earth over seasons. <br \/>Where to expect the sun to peek in December. <br \/>Where to find it in June.<br \/><br \/>Tomorrow is the thanksgiving holiday.  Everyone knows that we are taking this moment to be grateful.<br \/><br \/>It\u2019s a frame. During the hard times of the lockdown, I framed my fear and isolation into a story that gave me a hero tribe.<br \/><br \/>Everything was still there, but it changed what I looked at. I could l see the  things that brought joy and pass over the ones the dreadful parts. <br \/><br \/>I could think of it like some IKEA furniture, I\u2019m going look for the pieces that are supposed to make that picture a reality. At some point I will be sure I am missing an indispensable piece and I will start to despair. When I get to the end I will discover I had everything and I still have extra to add intrigue<br \/><br \/>With the frame of thankfulness, I won\u2019t despair in seeking. I can face the prospect and find what I need to create what I\u2019m hoping for.<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started during lockdown. I was isolated in the biggest city in the world-almost. Yes, my family was around me but I felt alone alone alone\u2014like the American homesteaders who lived 10 miles by buggy from the nearest neighbor. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2025\/11\/thanks\/\">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-6777","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\/6777","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=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6778,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions\/6778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}