{"id":10085,"date":"2016-12-20T22:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T03:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10085"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:46:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:46:24","slug":"living-like-lava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10085","title":{"rendered":"Living like lava"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luscious\u00a0pink blobs float the length of the lamp. One elongates, turns into a skull, dies, rises, breaks off into a balloon, drips down, merges with a teardrop, becomes a head on a body, head slides down the body, merges,<\/p>\n

\"\"grows, distends into a tall fish, breaks into balls reaching for each other, thinning, two fingerlets touch and pull away, all disappear into a rolling planet, tumble then rise into a pillar, erupts at the cap, mushroom cap bubbles down, penguin slithers up, turns into a torso …<\/p>\n

\"\"Life in the lava lamp is languid but never lazy.<\/p>\n

It is slow, it luxuriates, but it never stops shifting shape as it rises, falls and twists.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Loops and layers loll about in the lamp.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Relax and let the flow fill the space with shapes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Let yourself go limp as your eyes linger longer.<\/p>\n

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Lick your lips and feel them thicken.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

<\/span>Lift your eyes with one bulging blob and follow the fall to the lowest edge.<\/p>\n

Grow heavy with the largest blob and release all you’re holding when it blisters and blows out.<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nThis liquidity is a lovely lesson.<\/p>\n

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Life is like lava. Its little lumps grow and meld, its large blobs melt and float, it continually lets itself go while we linger\u00a0in the fluid moment.<\/p>\n

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Let go of your plans and your schedules and your boxes.<\/p>\n

\"\"Live in the lava.<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 1968, the year U.S. Patent 3,387,396 for “Display Device” was issued for the lava lamp. It was invented by a British accountant<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luscious\u00a0pink blobs float the length of the lamp. One elongates, turns into a skull, dies, rises, breaks off into a balloon, drips down, merges with a teardrop, becomes a head on a body, head slides down the body, merges, grows, distends into a tall fish, breaks into balls reaching for each other, thinning, two fingerlets … read more Living like lava<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[162,82,1368,1367,200,1369],"class_list":["post-10085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-162","tag-beauty","tag-lamp","tag-lava","tag-light","tag-liquid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10097,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions\/10097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}