{"id":10294,"date":"2017-01-07T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10294"},"modified":"2017-09-13T09:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:46:31","slug":"lost-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10294","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing around me is familiar.<\/p>\n

Only one house is visible, far in the distance. The street I crossed a few minutes before was unmarked. I followed an old road bed up into the woods until it stopped dead.<\/p>\n

Nothing now but snow, trees, shadows, and silence.<\/p>\n

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A perfect afternoon to be lost.<\/p>\n

Though\u00a0the temperature was in the 30s, the sky was unbroken blue and sunlight melted most of the snow and ice off the roads by noon. I walked down to the nearest trailhead, wandered it until the trail ended, and kept going deeper into the woods.<\/p>\n

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In the unbroken snow, my own tread gives\u00a0me the route back.<\/p>\n

I’m free to go anywhere my eyes draw me.<\/p>\n

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To the place where time does not exist …<\/p>\n

Lost in the exact moment that surrounds me.<\/p>\n

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All barriers lowered, the mystery of tracks,<\/p>\n

the ease of white against gray…<\/p>\n

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Snow glitters down from high branches in a crystal mist.<\/p>\n

Clean air pulled in cold, exhaled warm.<\/p>\n

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No destination.<\/p>\n

Only the next moment, and the next becomes now.<\/p>\n

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Crouched in silence, kneeling next to green,<\/p>\n

entering the grain.<\/p>\n

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Floating on top, sinking inside, sated by beauty, filled with the Light.<\/p>\n

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When I got home, I was\u00a0not quite sure that I really had been there.<\/p>\n

Glad to have taken photos. Today’s penny is a 2013, the year I bought the camera that I carried with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing around me is familiar. Only one house is visible, far in the distance. The street I crossed a few minutes before was unmarked. I followed an old road bed up into the woods until it stopped dead. Nothing now but snow, trees, shadows, and silence. A perfect afternoon to be lost. Though\u00a0the temperature was … read more Lost in the snow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[94,82,539,1363,179,156,590,1388,566],"class_list":["post-10294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tress","tag-94","tag-beauty","tag-lost","tag-mindfulness","tag-nature","tag-photography","tag-snow","tag-solitude","tag-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294","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=10294"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10309,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294\/revisions\/10309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}