{"id":352,"date":"2015-05-14T00:06:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T07:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2016-02-21T03:46:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T11:46:47","slug":"about-beach-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/about-beach-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"About &#8220;Beach Glass&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Beach Glass\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/beach-glass\/\">Beach Glass<\/a> is prose-poetry that came to me as indicated, on a trip to the beach with Fran. The actual beach was Robinson Beach on the west side of Whidbey Island, instead of Holmes Harbor facing the northeast. \u00a0This distinction isn&#8217;t important and I&#8217;m not sure why I decided to change the location in the text.<\/p>\n<p>While not an entirely precise replication of the experience, it is conceptually accurate. I did pickup a small piece of worn glass and held it in my hand as I considered it as a metaphor for the women who was waiting in the car.<br \/>\nAs I stared out over Admiralty Inlet and the Olympic mountains, my mind, in some subconscious state, began to relive the past half hour, in repetitious, staccatic, semi-sensical dialog. \u00a0I gradually intuited the underlying poetry in our conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly, I realized that I could not have had the same fragile bonding with another, more lucid person. \u00a0The joy of this pleasant patter was unique to Fran and I.<br \/>\nAcross the chasm, both temporal and psychic, separating Fran and I stretches this language, a grammatical bridge that is both illuminating and comforting. It articulates our relationship both as care-giver\/cared-for as well as friend\/friend. \u00a0We share a delightfully benign respect, free of pettiness and anger. \u00a0I try not to overthink it, I&#8217;m sure she doesn&#8217;t. Life is too short.<\/p>\n<p>This fragile link won&#8217;t always sustain our communication. \u00a0Over time, the line will grow dim and then, finally, silent. Thus, I am fortunate to indulge in it as I can today.<br \/>\n&#8220;Beach Glass&#8221; manifests this realization to me, slowly and imperfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beach Glass is prose-poetry that came to me as indicated, on a trip to the beach with Fran. The actual beach was Robinson Beach on the west side of Whidbey Island, instead of Holmes Harbor facing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-human-behaviors","category-about-me","category-philosphy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32pSF-5G","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}