{"id":1142,"date":"2009-12-08T18:44:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T18:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/12\/do-go-chasing-waterfalls.html"},"modified":"2009-12-08T18:44:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T18:44:32","slug":"do-go-chasing-waterfalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/12\/do-go-chasing-waterfalls.html","title":{"rendered":"Do Go Chasing Waterfalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/Lumix%20photos%201149.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"margaret falls\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/112\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/Lumix%20photos%201149-thumb-448x597-9963.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"448\" height=\"597\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>My daughter, at the site where we held my father&#8217;s memorial, watching the water fall down down down. Me, watching her, feeling the spray of the water against my cheek, feeling grateful to have this place &#8211; this cathedral of water and rock and trees, open to the sky &#8211; in which to commune with Dad. The one moment during which my heart felt at peace. A moment that I revisit, over and over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>(<i>This post is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwenbell.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/the-best-of-2009-blog-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Best Of 2009<\/a> blog challenge issued by the lovely Gwen Bell. Today&#8217;s challenge: recall a moment of peace. So few of these, when one has small children, and when <a href=\"http:\/\/herbadmother.com\/2009\/12\/of-shoes-and-ships-and-sealing-wax-and-hoarding-stuff-and-things\/\">one is struggling with grief<\/a>, but still: the above was mine.)<br \/>&nbsp; <\/i><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter, at the site where we held my father&#8217;s memorial, watching the water fall down down down. 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