{"id":108762,"date":"2002-12-02T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-02T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108762"},"modified":"2015-11-14T09:31:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T14:31:34","slug":"unbearable-lightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108762","title":{"rendered":"Unbearable Lightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up early this morning, 6:30 or so, and lay in bed for a long time, watching the sky get light, feeling &#8230; there is no other word for it &#8230; happy. The only way I can describe &#8220;happy&#8221; which seems way too nebulous a word with way too many unconnected connotations attached to it &#8230; is a feeling of lightness. I felt light. There was not a heaviness in my heart, or clouds in my head. There have been months at a time when I greet the day with a deep sigh. Literally. Like Olympia Dukakis in &#8220;Moonstruck&#8221;. Deep sighs are extremely therapeutic, but I only need to do them on the heavy heavy days. <\/p>\n<p>It has been a wonderful fulfilling week. <\/p>\n<p>I am going out to Brooklyn a bit later, to hang with my nephew Cashel. I had a great party on Friday night, I have been writing for 4 hours a day, I started up my &#8220;writing group&#8221; again (only this time with an expanded membership) and we had our first meeting Wednesday night where we set our goals as a group and as individuals, I went to a PAJAMA PARTY at a tavern in Jersey City mid-week with my roommate (the whole thing was so amusing, calling a cab on the sidewalk, wearing our pajamas, drinking martinis, in our pajamas), I reconnected with my old friend Eileen on Monday night which was a blast &#8230; we talked each other&#8217;s ears off. <\/p>\n<p>So yes. This morning I feel light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up early this morning, 6:30 or so, and lay in bed for a long time, watching the sky get light, feeling &#8230; there is no other word for it &#8230; happy. The only way I can describe &#8220;happy&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108762\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1101,600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108763,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108762\/revisions\/108763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}