{"id":11493,"date":"2016-06-13T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/?p=11493"},"modified":"2016-06-13T13:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T20:22:01","slug":"inthegarden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2016\/06\/13\/inthegarden\/","title":{"rendered":"#inthegarden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_8974-e1465848848364.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11494\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11494 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_8974-e1465848848364-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"wildflowers\" width=\"346\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_8974-e1465848848364-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_8974-e1465848848364-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_8974-e1465848848364-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The past few weeks I&#8217;ve been fairly contemplative about where I am in my life.\u00a0 I passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BF2DZFJRD1C\/?taken-by=janaremy\" target=\"_blank\">milestone birthday<\/a> and I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2014\/05\/21\/difference-day-makes\/\" target=\"_blank\">marked the anniversary of my cancer diagnosis <\/a>(or rather, I didn&#8217;t mark it at all this year, which felt alright).\u00a0 Also, I visited with a few old friends recently where we discussed all that&#8217;s happened in the past few decades.<\/p>\n<p>And after all that, I suspect that I just might jinx myself if I say that things are pretty positive right now.\u00a0 But it also seems worth noting that while there are still some hard days and some things that I hope to change about my circumstances, for the most part it&#8217;s just really good:\u00a0 my days are filled with interesting activities that are mostly of my own choosing, I enjoy my work colleagues very much, there is little friction in my family life, I have few health complaints, my home\/garden are well-worth returning to each evening, and I average about 7.5 hours of sleep at night (and every once in awhile, I even take a nap).<\/p>\n<p><em>(photo taken in my garden this weekend)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The past few weeks I&#8217;ve been fairly contemplative about where I am in my life.\u00a0 I passed a milestone birthday and I marked the anniversary of my cancer diagnosis (or rather, I didn&#8217;t mark it at all this year, which felt alright).\u00a0 Also, I visited with a few old friends recently where we discussed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,2,252,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts","category-family","category-garden","category-home","category-things-i-like"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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