{"id":623,"date":"2011-06-07T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2011-06-07T13:08:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T17:08:24","slug":"623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/2011\/06\/623\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strawberries of June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/?p=623\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-622\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"Strawberries_June_2011\" src=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Strawberries_June_20112-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Strawberries ripening on the vine\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s early June now in the gardens.\u00a0 While most of the other plants are in the early growing stages, the strawberries are beginning to ripen.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been pulling weeds from the strawberry patch and watching, thinking, waiting.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago,\u00a0 I moved away a leaf and there, underneath, was a large, brilliant red, fully ripened strawberry.\u00a0 The first strawberry of the season;\u00a0 it was magnificent and unexpected.\u00a0 I looked at it for a moment, feeling such a quiet, reverent joy that I hesitated to pluck it from the plant.<\/p>\n<p>When the moment was suddenly right, I pulled it from the vine and carried it inside the house, cradled in my dirty gardening gloves, to show my husband.\u00a0 Then I took it to the sink , rinsed it with clear, fresh water, and ate it.<\/p>\n<p>There was a brief moment when I could taste sun, rain, shades of red, and sweet juicy fruit.\u00a0 In that fleeting instant, I was connected with the energy of growing, changing, nurturing, and something deeper, ancient, &#8211; the feeling of connected spirit stretching without boundaries of time or dimension.<\/p>\n<p>That feeling faded almost as soon as it began and I&#8217;m glad that at that moment I was present enough to experience it.\u00a0 One or two seconds of wonder.<\/p>\n<p>So that was the first strawberry of June.<\/p>\n<p>With joy,<\/p>\n<p>Patti<\/p>\n<p>P.S. The photo above was taken in my garden this morning.\u00a0 Looks like it will be a good year for strawberries. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first strawberry of the season;  it was magnificent and unexpected.  I looked at it for a moment, feeling such a quiet, reverent joy from seeing it that I hesitated to pluck it from the plant.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,35,73,22],"tags":[207,210,209,208],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}