{"id":540,"date":"2009-02-15T13:07:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T17:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/?p=540"},"modified":"2009-02-17T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T14:23:03","slug":"letter-to-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/letter-to-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to my heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogher.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Blogher,<\/strong><\/a> the wonderful Web site for women on all topics, stages, and places in life (and umm, by the way, please clickity click on the ad in the box to the right of this post and the recommended reading below it, brought to you by the one and the same blogher peeps)\u00a0 has introduced and suggested this meme (suggested themes for writing, especially electronically):<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.blogher.com\/letter-my-heart?wrap=valentines-day-2009\/letter-my-heart\" target=\"_blank\">Write a letter to your heart<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And so it begins&#8230; it turns out I had a lot to say:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>Letter to my heart<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Be not afraid<\/strong>, my heart<br \/>\nYou are rich, thicker than you think<br \/>\nwith cords of red and purple velvet support<br \/>\nthey will not bind you<br \/>\nare there to cushion,<br \/>\nshould you let them<\/p>\n<p>You are not made of construction paper<br \/>\ncut neatly with plastic scissors along the arc<br \/>\nYou are not sugarwafer<br \/>\nNor stamped with a message to advertise<br \/>\nimpressing on your organs and your soul<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be generous and not threatened<\/strong><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s more, not less of you each day<br \/>\nand with each opening you allow<br \/>\nthe pulsing , bulbous rhythm<br \/>\nof contract<br \/>\nand release<br \/>\nis your syncopation. your melody and song.<br \/>\nyou decide if there is harmony<\/p>\n<p>Remember the hurts less<br \/>\nthe loves more<br \/>\nIt is within your choosing.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>forgive yourself<\/strong><br \/>\nthe scars that are left behind<br \/>\nespecially the Big One<br \/>\na break, a rip, tearing organs and passages and chambers,<br \/>\nat a time you were most fragile,<br \/>\nnot girl still nor woman yet, twelve,<br \/>\nwhen <strong>you had only childlike ways to heal<\/strong><br \/>\nand so you did, paste and staple back together<br \/>\nand it was hard<br \/>\nand messy<br \/>\nin ways that make breathing and beating<br \/>\nsometimes feel strained now.<br \/>\nYou had no other tools, then.<\/p>\n<p>but <strong>you are not fixed<\/strong><br \/>\nyou can grow, reshape, refeel, remold<br \/>\nor not mold at all, leaving room<br \/>\nfor the stretching you have yet to do<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be patient<\/strong> with those who want to reach you<br \/>\nBe loving and open, forgiving<br \/>\nwilling to change and to feel  and believe<br \/>\nthe good that befalls you<\/p>\n<p><strong>And I will try, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogher, the wonderful Web site for women on all topics, stages, and places in life (and umm, by the way, please clickity click on the ad in the box to the right of this post and the recommended reading below it, brought to you by the one and the same blogher peeps)\u00a0 has introduced and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[898,52,622],"tags":[174,222,223,275,1038,283,696,1040,50,938,723,1039],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonus-material","category-poetry","category-words","tag-death","tag-father","tag-father-loss","tag-grief","tag-healing","tag-heart","tag-hurt","tag-letter-to-my-heart","tag-love","tag-my-love","tag-open","tag-trying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}