{"id":1,"date":"2020-08-20T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/?p=1"},"modified":"2020-12-16T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T10:28:42","slug":"haiku-journal-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/haiku-journal\/haiku-journal-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiku Journal \u2013 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Week beginning Monday 2nd<\/sup> August:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I was doing Tai-chi on the lawn at 6.30 on a fresh sunny morning when a cloud, a flock of birds (which I think were sparrows) rose above a bush, followed its contours, swooped down and then rose again following the outline of the next bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the beach when the first gentle drops of rain spot the pebbles like plover\u2019s eggs and bring new colour to the slabs of wave-rounded rocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meditating in the rain – Provided one is dressed for it (extra sweater, waterproof coat with hood, waterproof trousers and welly boots), this is a wonderful experience. I sit on a chair in the garden, near some trees, but not too sheltered, and with the garden pond close behind me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rain patters on my hood and shoulders; the waxy leaves have a different sound, a thwack, drip sort of sound. Accompanied by the steady gentle plopping of drops in the pond there is music, of which I am part. The damp atmosphere magnifies the natural scent of flowers, wet bark and greenery. Breathe in, breathe out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another morning, another Tai-chi session on the lawn. I am doing the movement known as Parting the Clouds. I look up into a sky filled with an amazing variety of cloud formations – the dappled mackerel sky of high cirrus, billowing cumulus and lower streamers and banners of mist. Then, when I do White Crane Spreads Wings, a gull flaps slowly overhead, its shadow on the grass keeping time to my own \u2018wings\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week beginning Monday 2nd August: I was doing Tai-chi on the lawn at 6.30 on a fresh sunny morning when a cloud, a flock of birds (which I think were sparrows) rose above a bush, followed its contours, swooped down and then rose again following the outline of the next bush. On the beach when … Continue reading Haiku Journal \u2013 1<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}