{"id":1903,"date":"2011-09-25T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T18:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2011-12-26T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T15:18:33","slug":"intention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"Intention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in October 2006)<br \/>\nI\u2019m feeling a bit scattered.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking one thing I could do is make a drawing of my life \u2014 the pieces that are scattered \u2014 and then what is the center around which they could re-align?\u00a0 I\u2019ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patballen.com\/pages\/books.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Allen, Art is a Spiritual Practice<\/a>, and finding it inspiring.\u00a0 The last time I tried to read it, it scared me, felt like something I really couldn\u2019t do.\u00a0 She talks about intention \u2014 and how important it is to set an intention \u2014 so I\u2019ve been thinking about that this morning.\u00a0 What is my intention for my life?\u00a0 I want to live with awareness and compassion, to do God\u2019s will, or to move in alignment with the Great Powers, or to help all beings grow in awareness and compassion, or to be part \u2014 to do my part \u2014 in all things working together for good.\u00a0 Secondary to that is my healing work on myself, and whatever I can do to support the healing process of others, and to live as lightly on the earth as I can \u2014 or to use the gifts of Earth\/Nature with reverence and appreciation.\u00a0 Where does art come in?\u00a0 Part of my healing process, part of how I support others \u2014 \u201cart\u201d meaning more specifically work in the studio with colors and textures \u2014 and the other \u201cart\u201d is what I do at Neskaya and that\u2019s a way that I can support healing our connections with each other and with the earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in October 2006) I\u2019m feeling a bit scattered.\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking one thing I could do is make a drawing of my life \u2014 the pieces that are scattered \u2014 and then what is the center around which they could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1903\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}