{"id":17890,"date":"2022-03-25T15:12:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T19:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/?p=17890"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:57:57","slug":"wintery-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/2022\/wintery-mindfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Wintery Mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Wintery Mindfulness\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>\u201cThe woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep\u2026\u201d Robert Frost 1923<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The words of Robert Frost\u2019s poem reverberate in my mind as I glide smoothly along the once pristine tracks, now filled with new fallen snow. The silence of winter envelopes me until I focus only on my breathing and on each kick and glide. The painful strain in my shoulders gradually eases as my stress and worries subside. While I know the easing will only be temporary, I welcome it. I feel as light as the flakes of snow now gently falling. The quiet attunes me to even the slightest rustle of desiccated beech leaves that have yet to release their grip and fall to the forest floor. Occasionally out of the corner of my eye I sense a small vole scurrying to a safer hiding place. Although alone, I am caressed by the forest. It feels good. The only demands are those I place on my own body. Do I push harder until every breath, every heartbeat, feels like I have consciously willed it. Or, do I just continue the long slow distance ski and allow my mind at times to wander and at other times to only allow entrance to the silence and peace? Afterall, \u201cI have miles to go before I sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelonglifelong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/skiing-in-woods-240x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/skiing-in-woods-240x257.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/skiing-in-woods-400x429.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/skiing-in-woods-160x172.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/skiing-in-woods-768x824.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/skiing-in-woods-360x386.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/skiing-in-woods-200x215.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/skiing-in-woods.jpg 823w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep\u2026\u201d Robert Frost 1923 The words of Robert Frost\u2019s poem reverberate in my mind as I glide smoothly along the once pristine tracks, now filled with new fallen snow. The silence of winter envelopes me until I focus only on my breathing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memoir"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17913,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17890\/revisions\/17913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}