{"id":636,"date":"2009-07-30T05:15:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T05:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/07\/fresh-morning-purple-starfish-me-happy.html"},"modified":"2009-07-30T05:15:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T05:15:26","slug":"fresh-morning-purple-starfish-me-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/07\/fresh-morning-purple-starfish-me-happy.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: Lessons from Purple Starfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sun1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sun1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/starfish.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"starfish.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/starfish-thumb-500x375-6615.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Starfish! Or sea star!&#8211;as a naturalist corrected me yesterday. These guys are everywhere here. Purple starfish. Really there&#8217;s not much more magical. Except standing still and watching how sloooooooowly they move and getting inspired to slow things down myself. Slowing down. Slowing down. So much can happen when we just slow. It. Down. I suggest giving that a try today, even while you&#8217;re rushing.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starfish! Or sea star!&#8211;as a naturalist corrected me yesterday. These guys are everywhere here. Purple starfish. Really there&#8217;s not much more magical. Except standing still and watching how sloooooooowly they move and getting inspired to slow things down myself. Slowing down. Slowing down. So much can happen when we just slow. It. Down. 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