{"id":24013,"date":"2022-01-19T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/?p=24013"},"modified":"2022-01-20T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T16:33:22","slug":"writing-and-knitting-with-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/19\/writing-and-knitting-with-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing and Knitting with Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today Lily started writing a short story about a woman who&#8217;s mirror talks to her. Writing felt thrilling to Lily, and it was so fun to have her read what she started to me because she is so good at writing. I just finished the book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Circe<\/span> today, and I felt similarity between the power of Madeline Miller&#8217;s imagery and that of Lily&#8217;s. It will be awesome to see where her writing takes her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, Lily worked on her knitting skills with our friend Christian (Daniel and Amanda Olsen&#8217;s son). We admire Christian for his talents and kindness, and he&#8217;s an awesome teacher. Lily really progressed in just one session!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-20-at-9.28.22-AM-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-20-at-9.28.22-AM-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-20-at-9.28.22-AM-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-20-at-9.28.22-AM-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-20-at-9.28.22-AM-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-20-at-9.28.22-AM.png 1842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a harder emotional day today because of how much work I was cramming in my work hours, working through a bit of panic\/anxiety, recovering from the rigor of travels, and all the awards ceremonies, positivity and comradery I sat through (feeling not in the middle of it, and feeling aware of my gaps in personality and performance that made me not int he middle of it). It was a humbling day, but humbling always feels spiritually healthy, and a huge bright spot for me was seeing how over-the-moon happy Lily was as she engaged in writing and knitting. Also, by the end of the day, I re-centered, and felt truly content. I feel I am not perfect, but am overall happy with who I am and where I&#8217;m going, and I couldn&#8217;t be luckier with what I have, especially on the family front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Lily started writing a short story about a woman who&#8217;s mirror talks to her. Writing felt thrilling to Lily, and it was so fun to have her read what she started to me because she is so good at writing. I just finished the book Circe today, and I felt similarity between the power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/19\/writing-and-knitting-with-christian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing and Knitting with Christian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24015,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24013\/revisions\/24015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}