{"id":6994,"date":"2026-04-22T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=6994"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:51:51","slug":"where-there-is-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2026\/04\/where-there-is-space\/","title":{"rendered":"where there is space"},"content":{"rendered":"I finally finished the powerpoint presentation. Even as I say that, I wonder if I am using an outdated phrase. <br \/><br \/>I used to feel confident about what I know, and unconcerned about what other people called it.  But this presentation was really hard to create. I was increasingly convinced that I  was the problem. <br \/><br \/>A Greek chorus was singing that I didn\u2019t have skills anymore. What once was now is not.  The chorus yowls that the world has moved on and I have no place in anymore.<br \/><br \/>Every problem was bigger than me, and anything could get me off track. <br \/><br \/>Desperate, I used every trick to get to done. And I did.<br \/><br \/>Which leads me to today. I have to write MORE. I maintain the wonderblog, which is made up of this Weekly Wonder.<br \/><br \/>More writing? I have to face the shrieks of the chorus again.<br \/><br \/>WHY do I do this?<br \/><br \/>I wonder.<br \/><br \/>Oh. <br \/><br \/>I started this blog to write about wonder. It was fun to name it the Wonder blog! The phrase itself has a superhero cape.<br \/><br \/>But really, the blog has been about curiosity, exploration and investigation. <br \/><br \/>Wonder.<br \/><br \/>The word feels spacious. Open, not shrunken.<br \/><br \/>Not scary. Wonder is peaceful excitement.<br \/><br \/>There is room for me. I can move into it and through it.<br \/><br \/>Caterwauling chorus must be left behind.<br \/><br \/>I wasn\u2019t thinking about it as I worked through that scary powerpoint. I\u2019d put enough reps in that it came through the onslaught. <br \/><br \/>I practice wonder, and am dedicated to the discipline. <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished the powerpoint presentation. Even as I say that, I wonder if I am using an outdated phrase. I used to feel confident about what I know, and unconcerned about what other people called it. But this presentation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2026\/04\/where-there-is-space\/\">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-6994","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":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6997,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6994\/revisions\/6997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}