{"id":1066,"date":"2023-08-09T15:39:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2023-08-10T13:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:25:34","slug":"finding-my-self-amidst-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Finding My &#8220;Self&#8221; Amidst the Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/A-New-Way-of-Seeing-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/A-New-Way-of-Seeing-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/A-New-Way-of-Seeing-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/A-New-Way-of-Seeing-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes I try to catch a glimpse of who my true \u201cself\u201d is underneath the everchanging circumstances of my life.\u00a0 Try as I might, it is like attempting to grasp a cloud in my hand.\u00a0 For I find that in the timeline of my life, there is a piece of me that remains constant like the solid mountains in the distance, while there are other parts of me that are everchanging like the clouds that form in the sky.\u00a0 Hints of who I am are reflected in the things and the people that I love.\u00a0 Hints found in a snippet of poetry, in the cool breeze across the water, in the laughter of my children.\u00a0 Places, people, and stories all jumbled into one \u201cself\u201d that is everywhere and nowhere all at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background\">\n\n<strong>Finding My \u201cSelf\u201d Amidst the Clouds<\/strong>\r\nBy Krista Longeway\r\n\r\nFluffy white clouds form, floating in the sky\r\nAbove the distant blue of the mountains\r\nTheir solid strength standing tall and still \r\nAmidst a moving cloudscape\r\nReflected in the water below\r\n\r\nThe vast expanse of the sky \r\nNeither a place nor a destination\r\nFound everywhere and nowhere all at once\r\nThe clouds floating aimlessly on the wind\r\nForming pictures, drifting, then forming again\r\n\r\nThe water below, a silent mirror\r\nReflecting the distant mountains on its clear surface\r\nLike the pieces of me that remain constant\r\nFrom one year to the next\r\nSolid and still like the mountain\r\n\r\nAnd yet, in the timeline of my life\r\nThe vast beauty of my \u201cself\u201d \r\nAnd the circumstances that shape who I am\r\nAre always shifting like clouds drifting in the sky\r\nThis \u201cself\u201d that is everywhere and nowhere all at once\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I try to catch a glimpse of who my true \u201cself\u201d is underneath the everchanging circumstances of my life.\u00a0 Try as I might, it is like attempting to grasp a cloud in my hand.\u00a0 For I find that in the timeline of my life, there is a piece of me that remains constant like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hope","category-uncategorized","category-quiet-reflection","category-summer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Finding My &quot;Self&quot; 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