{"id":583,"date":"2008-04-22T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/04\/22\/monday-night-garbage-karma\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T05:33:00","slug":"monday-night-garbage-karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/04\/22\/monday-night-garbage-karma\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; garbage karma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_383186080\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<center><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Another beautiful day.. clear and warm.. I can&#8217;t remember this many prefect weather days in a row.. it&#8217;s incredible . It&#8217;s great for all the kids that are on school break. You can tell that it&#8217;s a vacation week for most people. The halls at work are pretty empty and so is the parking lot.  <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/apr2108\/apr2108001.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I put in a very full day.. Still trying to get my momentum back. I feel like I can clearly see what I&#8217;m supposed to be doing.. but I&#8217;m really. really struggling to grab hold and engage. At the same time I&#8217;m not able to get myself too worked out about it. I&#8217;ve always freaked about my work.. am I working hard enough.. is my stuff getting done in time.. Now I have trouble getting worked up about it.. Is thta progress ? or a step back<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I got home in time for Diane&#8217;s yoga class. It as great as always.. Gabe&#8217;s having fn down in South Carolina.. Max&#8217;s in school.. so it&#8217;s just us here this week.. kinda sad.. and kinda nice at the same time. I made dinner (pasta putenesca) Then we put the trash&nbsp; and recycling out together.. it was so romantic.&nbsp;&nbsp; Actually.. the deep cleaning we&#8217;re doing is both difficult and cathartic.. As I said when the car turned 100.000 the other day.. I always view things as having souls.. I really think about the things I&#8217;m putting into the garbage bag or recycling bin..&nbsp; I often think.. &#8220;I&#8217;m the last human who&#8217;s likely to look at or touch this &#8216;xxx&#8217; .&#8221;. (e.g. pencil, gum wrapper, transistor, oscilloscope, chair, etc) ..I think about what purpose they served us.. was it satisfying for &#8216;them&#8217; i.e. did they serve their purpose well. I always say sort of wordless&nbsp; prayer to the stuff as I walk away from throwing something away. It goes something like.&nbsp; &#8216;Thank you for serving me and my family. .. good luck in your next existence.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/apr2108\/apr2108002.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Gabe just called to say he was having a good time&#8230; I really miss him.. <\/p>\n<p>OK.. I have to catch and early plane tomorrow. so I&#8217;ll sign off here&#8230; Gnite everyone.. Gnite Sam. <br \/>-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful day.. clear and warm.. I can&#8217;t remember this many prefect weather days in a row.. it&#8217;s incredible . It&#8217;s great for all the kids that are on school break. You can tell that it&#8217;s a vacation week for most people. The halls at work are pretty empty and so is the parking lot. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/04\/22\/monday-night-garbage-karma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night &#8211; garbage karma<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}