{"id":371,"date":"2011-07-05T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ba435a7d-e614-4849-9bba-6b645fc95e92"},"modified":"2011-07-05T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T08:54:00","slug":"searching-for-a-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Searching For A Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of you know my mother crossed over to the other side <\/p>\n

on February 18th.  Poems and songs still appear in my heart, <\/p>\n

needing to be shared.  <\/p>\n

This one came on Sunday, July 3.<\/font> <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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Searching For a Center<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

After my brother and I watched them lower<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

our mother\u2019s casket into the cold, February ground,<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

with a back-hoe no less, the funeral director gave us each <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 white roses he had saved from the viewing.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

That night, alone, I held one of the roses,<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

and let the fragrant mass unravel carefully in my hands.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

The petals fell in a heap, like silken snowflakes,<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 and as I wept, searching for a center, I understood:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

The center of things is nearer to the thorns<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

than to the blossom, nearer to the ending<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

than to the beginning, and nearer to the unraveling of yourself<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

than to the trying to hold on for dear life.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright Joseph Anthony of the Wonder Child Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of you know my mother crossed over to the other side on February 18th.  Poems and songs still appear in my heart,  needing to be shared.  This one came on Sunday, July 3. Searching For a Center   After my brother and I watched them lower our mother\u2019s casket into the cold, February ground, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}