{"id":39,"date":"2010-09-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/2010\/09\/celestial-chimes.html"},"modified":"2010-09-28T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T01:00:00","slug":"celestial-chimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2010\/09\/celestial-chimes.html","title":{"rendered":"Celestial Chimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Andalus\"><font size=\"4\">Sitting on my Mom&#8217;s South Florida screen porch mid afternoon. Light breeze is wafting through the fronds of my favorite palm tree that stands like a guardian at the door. Engaged in conversation, imagining that we are on the beach that she no longer has the energy to get to, as a result of the Congestive Heart Failure that has turned this once active octogenarian into someone who some days, sleeps more than she is awake.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Andalus\"><font size=\"4\">On this day, I am reading to her from Karen Drucker&#8217;s book <i><b>Let Go Of The Shore<\/b><\/i> and she smiles in recognition at some of the concepts expressed therein. Two ducks are listening in, wagging their tail feathers as they perch in front of the porch.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Andalus\"><font size=\"4\">Above us are two sets of wind chimes that respond randomly to the gentle wind that moves through them. Their delightful song serenades us as we chat&#8230;.we who are mother in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> decade of her life and daughter in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> decade of her own. Kindred spirits who share a history and a destiny.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Andalus\"><font size=\"4\">What gifts can you appreciate this day? The sights and sounds? The company of a loved one? Or simply being moved by life like the breeze through wind chimes? <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Andalus\"><font size=\"4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Www.karendrucker.com\/\">www.karendrucker.com<\/a> <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sitting on my Mom&#8217;s South Florida screen porch mid afternoon. Light breeze is wafting through the fronds of my favorite palm tree that stands like a guardian at the door. 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