{"id":51,"date":"2007-01-15T23:14:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T07:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:18:40","slug":"capillaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Capillaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodiestheexhibition.com\/\">Bodies<\/a> exhibit a couple months ago and I found the capillary system to be absolutely stunning.\u00c2\u00a0 The density, complexity and far reaching capabilities of the intricate web of a system that allows oxygen and nutrients to travel to the outermost places of our bodies as well as remove the toxins that build up in our crevices&#8230; it just twists the mind.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"92\" alt=\"skin-capilaries-copy.jpg\" id=\"image50\" src=\"http:\/\/privatenook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/skin-capilaries-copy.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"86\" alt=\"oak-capilaries-copy.jpg\" id=\"image49\" src=\"http:\/\/privatenook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/oak-capilaries-copy.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I walk home through a beautiful neighborhood full of trees.\u00c2\u00a0 I was looking up one day and realized the capillary system of the tree was fully visible with the leaves of summer long gone.\u00c2\u00a0 My mind made a comparison between the capillaries of the body and the tree.<\/p>\n<p>Later, as I was mulling over my comparison, I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/features\/chopra\/\">Deepak Chopra<\/a> on John Stewart talking about his latest book.\u00c2\u00a0 He was talking of the moment of death and created an analogy where you are surrounded by your house, your home and in death the walls disappear.\u00c2\u00a0 Your essence is still there but now it is all encompassing.\u00c2\u00a0 You are everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>I realized that the tree capillary system looks to me like us with our skin pealed off, we are gripping the earth with our feet and reaching out with our capillaries trying to heal the earth.\u00c2\u00a0 Providing nourishment and removing toxins&#8230;. maybe the trees tell of souls that refuse to give up in their healing&#8230;..\u00c2\u00a0 or maybe they are the civilizations of the past that have evolved into a constant meditation that deepens as the earth evolves&#8230;. in any case, the capillaries are just too similar to take as coincidence.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"78\" height=\"96\" alt=\"veins-and-arteries-copy.jpg\" id=\"image48\" src=\"http:\/\/privatenook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/veins-and-arteries-copy.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Bodies exhibit a couple months ago and I found the capillary system to be absolutely stunning.\u00c2\u00a0 The density, complexity and far reaching capabilities of the intricate web of a system that allows oxygen and nutrients to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/?p=51\">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-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-beginning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6076,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privatenook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"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. -->