{"id":103,"date":"2009-04-01T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2009-04-01T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T17:36:00","slug":"sap-is-rising%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":">Sap is Rising\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2026and I feel my creativity rising with it!<\/p>\n

The rise in creative juices has led me to go exploring other people\u2019s blogs, looking for what inspires them, how they communicate it, how they cope with the ebb and flow of creativity.<\/p>\n

\"image_thumb\"<\/a>Thank you to Bonnie<\/a> and Jennifer<\/a> for the creative blogger award!  I\u2019m thrilled that they noticed my blog!  Both of them do work that affects my internal spaces, and also makes me stop and analyze myself.  I look at Bonnie\u2019s use of color with the eyes of a newborn, trying to soak up all her amazing knowledge of color and pattern.<\/p>\n

The very first photo I saw on Jennifer\u2019s blog made me realize I don\u2019t actually have to hear<\/em> music to have my internal spaces rearranged.  Just the photo of her harp in front of an empty chair, with all that potential <\/em>for music  set my emotions in motion!  Her writings are sensitive, like harp music, and her wedge weave is wonderful\u2026.and rhythmic\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent a couple of days nurturing my creativity by looking at other blogs: those recommended by others giving that award and those I\u2019ve found while \u2018googling.\u2019  I am overcome!  Visiting these blogs has been an \u2018artist date\u2019 for me!<\/p>\n

Weaving the Dream<\/a> is a blog I stumbled on when googling.  There is a banner on her site that says, \u201cTake a gentle step forward in your spiritual and creative journey.\u201d  That\u2019s just what I felt as I read through some of her posts.  <\/p>\n

Magic Warp<\/a>, by Steve Bremner.  The first post I read is about feeling that there is never enough time to weave.  That\u2019s the very feeling that keeps me away from it.  That feeling is a real creativity killer, and is probably the biggest hurdle to any artisitic output.  It\u2019s the devil.<\/p>\n

(If you put your cursor over any of the names or blog names above you will see that they are live links.  I don\u2019t know why they are not showing up as links without having the cursor on them. Most of this technology is a complete mystery to me!)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amaryllis season at my house!\"March<\/a> \"March<\/a>\"March<\/a> <\/p>\n

One more wonderful March surprise! A gift from my son\u2019s friend, who thought I might enjoy tea from India.  He visited the estates where these teas were grown. <\/p>\n

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\"March<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I wore these colorful socks yesterday, with an orange turtleneck, my denim shirt with the embroidered palm tree from \"convergence<\/a>last summer\u2019s Convergence, and what else? Orange crocs<\/em>!  It\u2019s spring! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

> \u2026and I feel my creativity rising with it! The rise in creative juices has led me to go exploring other people\u2019s blogs, looking for what inspires them, how they communicate it, how they cope with the ebb and flow of creativity. Thank you to Bonnie and Jennifer for the creative blogger award!  I\u2019m thrilled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-inspiration","category-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}