{"id":6625,"date":"2020-12-21T06:50:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T14:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2020-12-21T06:50:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T14:50:45","slug":"of-walking-in-winter-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/of-walking-in-rain\/of-walking-in-winter-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Walking in Winter Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6625\" data-postid=\"6625\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6625 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>Sunday. Early. Rain falls. I don the pea coat and walk to the beach, past the holiday decorations and hummingbirds feeding from the feeders the hummingbird nuts keep filled year round. I love these hummingbird nuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I walk down the road, I think about another Christmas tale I want to write, even though the book of Christmas Tales is already out. It&#8217;s about a Vietnam veteran who runs a Christmas tree lot in Coos Bay and meets another veteran, a younger man very down on his luck, and the older vet enlists his help to run the tree lot. I find these days that I am writing almost everything in my head as a I walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of books, I sold a copy of the rain book. That means I have one left. One!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought about writing more about the Pandemic but just can&#8217;t seem to muster the energy for it. Two more of my friends contracted the virus. They survived but felt waylaid by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hit the beach and the piles of dead kelp continue to mount. I have never seen such a die off, if that&#8217;s what it is, of this much kelp. Usually it piles up after a big storm, but for the past two months the kelp just keep coming and coming ashore on calm seas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been several days since I visited my complex of 17 forts. In the distance, as I approach, I can see most of them have been obliterated by natural causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only one remains intact. Why this fort survived when others around it were blown out, is a Zen koan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll start over later this week. There is some great new wood washed ashore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still somewhat at a loss at what writing project to take up in 2021. I have two books already in the can. I have some ideas but nothing seems pressing, more like I am considering and letting the interest build.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday. Early. Rain falls. I don the pea coat and walk to the beach, past the holiday decorations and hummingbirds feeding from the feeders the hummingbird nuts keep filled year round. I love these hummingbird nuts. As I walk down the road, I think about another Christmas tale I want to write, even though the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-of-walking-in-rain","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6629,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions\/6629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}