{"id":174,"date":"2008-08-17T21:48:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T05:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:14:07","slug":"cucumber-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Cucumber Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sit within myself as I can do nothing else and watch others provide beautiful examples of what it means to live full, truthful, adventurously\u00c2\u00a0 and most of all courageously.\u00c2\u00a0  Most would say I provide the same insight&#8230; but if I am not always searching to strengthen and grow I think myself dead, or even worse; lifeless.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I look to others for inspiration as always, watching them trip, fumble and fall toward betterment.\u00c2\u00a0 I cry for them but not in sadness but for the camaraderie i feel with them.\u00c2\u00a0 This is where I find my sense of community.<\/p>\n<p>I watch her.\u00c2\u00a0 She proves to me over and over to just stand in truth, as best you can and everything else will undoubtedly fall into place.\u00c2\u00a0 Like puzzle pieces magically aligning to their partners to make the picture come into focus much faster than if you were to manhandle with dexterity and control each piece.\u00c2\u00a0 She stands for herself and the magic pulls the pieces into the prettiest picture and I am drooling all over it with my cucumber eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s my turn.\u00c2\u00a0 I am grabbing for the reigns of control knowing that if I just trust and let go.. I will find my own pretty picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit within myself as I can do nothing else and watch others provide beautiful examples of what it means to live full, truthful, adventurously\u00c2\u00a0 and most of all courageously.\u00c2\u00a0 Most would say I provide the same insight&#8230; but if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=174\">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-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-beginning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"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. -->