{"id":118,"date":"2007-08-24T22:09:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T06:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:15:23","slug":"the-dizzying-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"The Dizzying Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enveloped in a cloud, surrounded by sweet softness.\u00c2\u00a0 I hear a song escaping my heart in a long exhale.\u00c2\u00a0 It is about a girl lost in the wind. She is twisted up, confused but keeps her eyes open to take it all in.\u00c2\u00a0 In the end, with a whisper she fuses with the ether and becomes wind in form flowing, tickling all matter.\u00c2\u00a0 Upon the crescendo there are lights flickering, twinkling in my peripheral.\u00c2\u00a0 I am dizzy and feel faint, my breathing shallow and light. I don&#8217;t want to move out of fear that the disruption would stop the song that my heart so wants to sing.\u00c2\u00a0 The words fade but the feeling persists.<\/p>\n<p>I was given a gift once by someone who pushed and prodded at me, forcing the gift at me while I pondered the package.\u00c2\u00a0 I finally took it, hastily opening and not quite understanding exactly what I was looking at after the last of the wrapping was gone.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew it was given with love and at the time it was something I needed, but I am still unsure of what it was that captured me so completely.<\/p>\n<p>The song that I feel emanating makes my body ache because in truth I may have taken something that i wasn&#8217;t willing to give.\u00c2\u00a0 Or I gave something that I wasn&#8217;t willing to take.\u00c2\u00a0 Either way the gift is sitting on my heart blocking the way of my song.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is my turn to push and prod at myself, without direction or sense of righteousness i am left to decipher my own clues&#8230; breadcrumbs that I leave for myself unknowingly so that I may clear the way to my own heart and let the wind breath life and regenerate me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enveloped in a cloud, surrounded by sweet softness.\u00c2\u00a0 I hear a song escaping my heart in a long exhale.\u00c2\u00a0 It is about a girl lost in the wind. She is twisted up, confused but keeps her eyes open to take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-beginning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6055,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/6055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->