{"id":987,"date":"2023-05-13T12:50:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T12:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=987"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:37:55","slug":"where-the-magic-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"Where the Magic Grows"},"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\/05\/Where-the-Magic-Grows-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Where-the-Magic-Grows-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Where-the-Magic-Grows-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Where-the-Magic-Grows-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\">As the long, frozen winter melts into the beauty of spring, I feel myself come alive again.\u00a0 It is in the garden where the sights and sounds and smells of spring\u2019s awakening first begins.\u00a0 It is in the smell of the soft rains that fall.\u00a0 It is in the sight of the tiny pink cherry blossoms as they form on the bare branches of trees.\u00a0 It is in the sound of the wind as it softly rustles through the new leaves.\u00a0 I know this time is on its way when I awake to hear the robins singing happily in the trees.\u00a0 Spring is a time of new growth and it brings with it a feeling of hope.\u00a0 It is this feeling of hope that I hold close in my heart and try to keep alive all through the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f78da8a3\">\n<strong>Where the Magic Grows<\/strong>\r\nBy Krista Longeway\r\n\r\nIt begins in this wondrous time and place\r\nWhere the first of the new spring flowers grow\r\nWhere the pink cherry blossoms hang like lace\r\nAfter the melting of long winter\u2019s snow\r\n\r\nIt is wherever springtime\u2019s soft rains fall\r\nFilling the air with the smell of damp earth\r\nThe patter of raindrops surround us all\r\nBringing a beautiful time of rebirth\r\n\r\nIn a place where wind dances through the trees\r\nBlowing freely as though without a care\r\nWhispering a song in the rustling leaves\r\nThe robins singing so happily there\r\n\r\nIt is in the garden where the magic starts\r\nIn all of the sights, the sounds and the smells\r\nSoftly touching something deep in our hearts\r\nThis is where all the hope of springtime dwells\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the long, frozen winter melts into the beauty of spring, I feel myself come alive again.\u00a0 It is in the garden where the sights and sounds and smells of spring\u2019s awakening first begins.\u00a0 It is in the smell of the soft rains that fall.\u00a0 It is in the sight of the tiny pink cherry [&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":[10,1,6,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hope","category-uncategorized","category-quiet-reflection","category-spring","category-the-garden"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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