{"id":18914,"date":"2021-10-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/?p=18914"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:56:11","slug":"day-29-october-journaling-adventure-with-the-joy-of-writing-journal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2021\/10\/day-29-october-journaling-adventure-with-the-joy-of-writing-journal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 29: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Lisa
I don’t have a picture of me journaling in bed, so this will have to do!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Wow. I wrote some really embarrassing things in my list of “things you don’t know about me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I settled upon something mundane\u2014that I like to garden barehanded, pulling on the roots of [what I believe is] mugwort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I journaled about my experience gardening that day\u2014transplanting Hosta with the help of my son and his friends and digging out weeds that were suffocating the Hosta already there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned a few things about gardening from two of his friends, one whose grandmother is a horticulturist who planted rooftop gardens in New York City, and has a lovely garden of native species here in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"soil\n\"
Photo by Chris Yang<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We pulled out many plants to support the Hosta\u2014goldenrod, mugwort (so I am told), wood sorrel, porcelain vines and many plants I do not know. I argued with myself in my journal<\/a> about whether I was tampering with nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, many of these vines and weeds were non-natives, pushing out the native plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, I wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shrugged off these thoughts, dug my hands into the soil, tugged hard at the orange root lifted from its home and parted the loamy, dark earth.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Your Turn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"joy<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Did you find it easy or hard to list things that most people don’t know about you? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about picking one to explore? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was it like to write about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Share an excerpt, an insight, a struggle or question. Comment below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. I wrote some really embarrassing things in my list of “things you don’t know about me.” I settled upon something mundane\u2014that I like to garden barehanded, pulling on the roots of [what I believe is] mugwort. I journaled about my experience gardening that day\u2014transplanting Hosta with the help of my son and his friends…  Read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,8885],"tags":[148,8931,8910,8895],"class_list":{"0":"post-18914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-creativity","8":"category-journaling","9":"tag-creativity-2","10":"tag-gardening","11":"tag-joy-of-writing","12":"tag-the-joy-of-writing-journal","13":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278735,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18914\/revisions\/278735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}