{"id":1979,"date":"2015-06-23T19:03:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T10:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2015-06-23T19:03:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T10:03:10","slug":"on-a-rainy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/23\/on-a-rainy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"On a rainy day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"150621_foggy_cedars_600\"<\/a>\u00a0On a rainy day, in the mist, you might miss the turnoff . . .<\/p>\n

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. . . and end up in a place completely new.<\/p>\n

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On a rainy day, you might see things\u00a0that are right<\/em> in front of you . . .<\/p>\n

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. . . that you wouldn’t have noticed had the sky been blue.<\/p>\n

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On a rainy day, you might\u00a0run into\u00a0folks who, fundamentally, prefer the rain.<\/p>\n

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On a rainy day, the white flowers of the yamaboushi<\/em> tree might poke their heads out from the grey . . . just to entice you.<\/p>\n

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On a rainy day, you might not worry about the spray coming off the waterfall.<\/p>\n

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On a rainy day, on your way home, you might remember the lotus pond.<\/p>\n

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On a rainy day, you might imagine each lotus leaf a giant pitcher in a giant hall, with a grand feast in progress, and when each pitcher grows heavy with\u00a0the puddling\u00a0water and finally tips over and you hear the water\u00a0gurgling down into the pond, you might imagine a throat thoroughly quinched. Or you might imagine—well, it’s up to you—you could imagine anything<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That puddling water in those elephantine lotus leaves\u00a0might remind you of your mother’s favorite crystal, the one she always asked you to be careful with.<\/p>\n

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Or you might (whether you’re eight, or eighty<\/em>-eight) imagine that someone, someone special, has opened up a jewelry box, and there, before your eyes, is a diamond pendant . . . no, no, no, not a diamond <\/em>pendant, it’s more lovely than that.<\/p>\n

You might\u00a0imagine how it will\u00a0feel resting upon your breast.<\/p>\n

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And those flowers, beaded with rain drops, might make you think, “And from this muddy muck!”<\/p>\n

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On a rainy day.<\/p>\n

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\uff0a\uff0a\uff0aJapanese haiku\u00a0a joint\u00a0effort from yours truly and\u00a0Tammy Tam (a tremendous member of the Hearty Hiker team). A rough translation: “In the mist . . . the stark white . . . of the yamaboushi<\/em> flowers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0On a rainy day, in the mist, you might miss the turnoff . . . . . . and end up in a place completely new. On a rainy day, you might see things\u00a0that are right in front of you . . . . . . that you wouldn’t have noticed had the sky been … Continue reading On a rainy day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}