{"id":10258,"date":"2017-01-02T20:28:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T01:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10258"},"modified":"2017-09-13T09:46:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:46:54","slug":"walk-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10258","title":{"rendered":"Walk in the water"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke\u00a0up to gray and I watched the rain and I was glad.<\/p>\n

Remembering\u00a0all those months of drought<\/a>, when I wanted so much just to feel the rain.<\/p>\n

Today I soaked in it.<\/p>\n

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I walked the city with a casual hand on the umbrella and felt my clothes slowly get saturated.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0watched the rain make its path and patterns.<\/p>\n

The water lets my mind float.<\/p>\n

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Wet\u00a0patterns break up worry patterns and wash them away.<\/p>\n

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The shelter of an underpass gives me a place\u00a0to remember.<\/p>\n

There was a highway near my childhood home, and I loved climbing under the overpass to sit in the top corner there, hiding and rolling gravel\u00a0and hearing\u00a0my voice echo.<\/p>\n

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Cars rushing past, splash! The rain makes me invisible, as\u00a0though I am eight years old again.<\/p>\n

I watch the drops and rivulets\u00a0bring cement to life.<\/p>\n

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Structures melted by water. The clarity of rain.<\/p>\n

A pedestrian bridge makes a long gallery<\/p>\n

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that\u00a0frames the rain into paintings.<\/p>\n

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The city,\u00a0my own private exhibit.<\/p>\n

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Slurp.<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 2013. That’s the last time I took a long walk in the rain on purpose. Too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke\u00a0up to gray and I watched the rain and I was glad. Remembering\u00a0all those months of drought, when I wanted so much just to feel the rain. Today I soaked in it. I walked the city with a casual hand on the umbrella and felt my clothes slowly get saturated. I\u00a0watched the rain make … read more Walk in the water<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[94,1033,142,1363,156,141,566],"class_list":["post-10258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","tag-94","tag-city","tag-drought","tag-mindfulness","tag-photography","tag-rain","tag-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258","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=10258"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10293,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions\/10293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}