{"id":124,"date":"2008-03-06T17:16:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T22:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinthealong.com\/2008\/03\/06\/stray-thoughts-as-company\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T17:16:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T22:16:33","slug":"stray-thoughts-as-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"stray thoughts as company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>just a teensy little time to stitch today (so far) and nothing picture worthy as i&#8217;m still just stitching, stitching, stitching on what i call the basic, infrastructure level. next stage of unfolding on both works should start soon.<\/p>\n<p>stray thoughts that kept me company today when i shoved the ubiquitous work aside and began stitching on this one &#8220;flash image&#8221; simply to assuage my soul&#8217;s craving:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolyrics.com\/mr-tanner-lyrics-harry-chapin.html\">harry chapin&#8217;s <em>mr. tanner<\/em><\/a>. a song i had somehow missed until <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeinthealong.com\/secret-decoder-ding#Slug\/\">slug<\/a> sent it to me as i worked on my thesis. it&#8217;s about one mr. tanner, a dry cleaner by trade, who sang with his magnificent baritone voice whenever he could because singing made him &#8220;feel so happy and it made him feel so good\/and he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul\/he did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cather.unl.edu\/\">willa cather<\/a> who said &#8220;the end is nothing; the road is all.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>in her book <em>walking on water: reflections on faith and art<\/em>, one of my hands-down favorite authors of all time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheaton.edu\/learnres\/ARCSC\/collects\/sc03\/bio.htm\">madeleine l&#8217;engle<\/a> says the work knows more than you do. it comes like an annunciation and you can choose to be the vessel and create the work . . . or not. if you say yes, says l&#8217;engle, it&#8217;s your job as artist to follow where the work leads, trusting it as you go.<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just a teensy little time to stitch today (so far) and nothing picture worthy as i&#8217;m still just stitching, stitching, stitching on what i call the basic, infrastructure level. next stage of unfolding on both works should start soon. stray thoughts that kept me company today when i shoved the ubiquitous work aside and began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}