{"id":18165,"date":"2022-04-08T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/?p=18165"},"modified":"2024-08-29T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:50:35","slug":"my-eyes-have-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/2022\/my-eyes-have-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"My Eyes Have Seen"},"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                        My Eyes Have Seen\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>My Eyes Have Seen<br>April 7 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was one of the prompts given on our last lifelong learning class. Initially, I was hesitant to approach this because it is such an immense undertaking. However, I after I put pen to paper and given a less than 10 minutes time limit, the ideas began to flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My eyes have seen a lot. No wonder I need glasses. There&#8217;s so much to say with the title as grandiose as this. My usual approach is to break this down into smaller parts, then attack each one. After doing so, each subdivision may continue to expand on it\u2019s own, or I hope, somehow coalesce together to reflect, in an overall sense, what my eyes have seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My eyes have seen the family of my childhood, falling in love with my wife, our own family, the homes we have lived in and so many adventures that emerged. My eyes are now seeing the families of our children with their children. My eyes have seen my friends and my eyes have seen my professional life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been lucky enough to have travelled to many wonderful places that my visual memory will never forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout my life so far, my eyes have witnessed great joy and happiness, great pain and sorrow, cruelty, wisdom and kindness, and love, at all levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My eyes are not yet done, I hope they&#8217;re ready for what&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Eyes Have SeenApril 7 2022 This was one of the prompts given on our last lifelong learning class. Initially, I was hesitant to approach this because it is such an immense undertaking. However, I after I put pen to paper and given a less than 10 minutes time limit, the ideas began to flow. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18165","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=18165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24515,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18165\/revisions\/24515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}