{"id":1093,"date":"2024-08-25T15:37:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2024-08-25T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T15:37:51","slug":"sand-castles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/25\/sand-castles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Castles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To Calcifer

You go to the beach and build your castles
with sand and water and the joy of making,
of bringing something new into the world
that makes it yours.

The wind will blow drying sand away
and, grain by grain, the castle will subside,\u00a0
its turrets sliding, flattening and melting\u00a0
into the beach.
Your mark upon the world,\u00a0
your proud monument dissolved forever.

What will remain to you when it is gone?
The joy of building\u00a0
and, of course, the skill
to build another evanescent castle.

You cannot see yourself – you see reflections\u00a0
and shadows,\u00a0
they dance upon the waves,\u00a0
reflected in the eyes of those watching.
You see reflections in these eyes and say:
“T’is I.
My shadow, my dance.
It is unique.\u00a0
It’s seen and felt by you.
I am unique and I am here now.”

The eyes will close and the waters still,
the sun will die and take away the light
and shadows will go.

What will remain to you when they are gone?
The joy of dancing\u00a0
and, of course, the skill
to know who you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To Calcifer You go to the beach and build your castleswith sand and water and the joy of making,of bringing something new into the worldthat makes it yours. The wind will blow drying sand awayand, grain by grain, the castle will subside,\u00a0its turrets sliding, flattening and melting\u00a0into the beach.Your mark upon the world,\u00a0your proud monument […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18,23,173,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}