{"id":9967,"date":"2016-12-07T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=9967"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:46:25","slug":"random-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=9967","title":{"rendered":"Random beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some days the beauty is unstoppable<\/p>\n

You just have to stop for it<\/p>\n

It began early,\u00a0with the mist enfolding the newly naked<\/a> trees<\/p>\n

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That would have been good enough for the whole day<\/p>\n

The mist lifted, and I drove\u00a0to our house, where the new roof is being put\u00a0on this week… In the past, I’ve been traumatized<\/a> by the sight of all the damage<\/p>\n

Today I had a view from the living room like I’ll never have again<\/p>\n

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I went up to the bedroom to catch the window view down the valley the view I have missed<\/p>\n

In just another five weeks – it will be ours again<\/p>\n

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Without any furniture, I could concentrate on the lovely lines and angles of the house, the way the spaces fit together<\/p>\n

The loft also gives me another view into\u00a0the living room \u00a0The open roof played up the beauty of the architecture<\/p>\n

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I went outside for more angles<\/p>\n

I poked around on the tree that caused<\/a> all this damage<\/p>\n

The root ball has been washed by the rains, and now I can start to see the intertwined beauty of how the tree held fast to the slope for those six or seven decades<\/p>\n

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I am looking forward to watching those roots return to the soil None of it looks like damage anymore It looks like new life<\/p>\n

I went for a hike Inhaled beauty Starting with the first running stream – oh, how I have missed that water, and now the rains have brought the valley back to rich wetness<\/p>\n

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The forest\u00a0glowed with the afternoon light \u00a0The black ink strokes<\/a> of the trees lined the road<\/p>\n

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And the light began to touch its fingers, gently, here and here and here, like a whispered question – can you see?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Can you see?<\/em><\/p>\n

Look closer always closer<\/p>\n

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A whole world there in the moss, I could have spent an hour lost in the forest of the moss<\/p>\n

but I walked on because there was more and more and more<\/p>\n

A scatter of leaves, as well-composed as the master works in my art books – just a random piece of beauty left by the wind<\/p>\n

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Even driving away, the dried dead grass on the hillside was golden with beauty in that light<\/p>\n

I defied the driver behind me, slowing down to 10 mph so that I could admire it<\/p>\n

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The beauty is unstoppable<\/p>\n

You just have to stop for it<\/p>\n

Every second it’s there<\/p>\n

Random and rich and rolling<\/p>\n

Today the penny is a random beauty, from 1995<\/p>\n

I saw the random rich patterns of sugar palms against the fields of Cambodia were, in December that year<\/p>\n

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Some days the beauty is unstoppable You just have to stop for it It began early,\u00a0with the mist enfolding the newly naked trees That would have been good enough for the whole day The mist lifted, and I drove\u00a0to our house, where the new roof is being put\u00a0on this week… In the past, I’ve been … read more Random beauty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[76,1201,82,1295,164,400,1357,179,180],"class_list":["post-9967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","tag-76","tag-architecture","tag-beauty","tag-cambodia","tag-house","tag-leaves","tag-moss","tag-nature","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967","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=9967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9984,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967\/revisions\/9984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}