{"id":3112,"date":"2013-10-07T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2013-10-07T19:58:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T16:58:54","slug":"cease-to-dream-cease-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"Cease to Dream &#8211; Cease to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"gods_plan-630\u00d7320\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gods_plan-630x320.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3113\" alt=\"gods_plan-630x320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gods_plan-630x320.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Cease to Dream &#8211; Cease to Be<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A seed crystal, the girl&#8217;s love is a joyful <br \/>sentiment of the heart, an instinct of two bodies <br \/>that meet in bliss. She grows becomes<\/p>\n<p>a warrior woman, fights that which destroys <br \/> burgeoning life, she strives for clarity, for healing <br \/>to illumine her own internal dawn.<\/p>\n<p>she rises as matriarch, reaps the rewards <br \/>of a sustained effort in all the creations <br \/>of her life. Sometimes she touches<\/p>\n<p>wisdom, it slithers from her fingers<br \/>in the busyness that fills life. She grows<br \/>older, discovers she can hold this<\/p>\n<p>understanding for longer. A grandmother,<br \/>she learns to see past hate and suffering<br \/> treasures the value of unconditional<\/p>\n<p>love. She sees in others, in all things<br \/>the truth of herself. Light in crystalline<br \/>waters &#8211; the image is returned.<\/p>\n<p>love becomes a transparency, lucid <br \/>clairvoyance, as she surrenders herself<br \/> she gains clarity, like a crystal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Gael Bage<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}