{"id":152,"date":"2001-09-10T02:02:03","date_gmt":"2001-09-10T07:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2001-09-10T02:02:03","modified_gmt":"2001-09-10T07:02:03","slug":"glad-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"glad summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m glad summer is not over.  I’m glad my air conditioner still works.  For all my tantrums<\/a> and bitterness<\/a>, I am still grateful that all the world’s people continue their precious journies despite my occasional desire that everyone except me be vaporized<\/a>.  I am grateful for the work<\/a> I am allowed to do — even with all of its frustrations, catch-22<\/i>‘s, and angry-scared-hurt people who call<\/a> and try to be mean. 
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\nI am thankful for consciousness; for sight; for the ability to read; for the opportunity to write; and for the paperback set, now venerable and disintegrating, given to me by my sister 30 years ago, 29 years before she died<\/a>. \n<\/p>\n

\nI like woodsmoke carried on crisp air, or the scent of suntan lotion mingling with sweat and sea air on a brilliantly sunny beach-day.  I apreciate the performance art of day and night, of sunset and sunrise, of cloud and sky, and of star and spirit<\/a>.  I love all my ex’s and their vast capacities to forgive; few of them hate me, but most of them have had reason to.  I am grateful for all the trauma’s I have suffered, for my abortive evasions<\/a> of trauma’s effect, for the decades I have lost to self-pity, self-contempt, and breathtaking rage.  And I am grateful to have lived long enough to grow up and to retract the blame that really belongs to no one. \n<\/p>\n

\nI have hated living only because I loved life more than I thought<\/i> I could bear.  I am grateful now to know that my love for life is vast — and exactly the equivalent of my capacity to bear it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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