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Since I have been fully vaccinated I now meet up with my granddaughters once a week after school. Oftentimes I will have a conversation with the older one, D, and then work on a building project with the younger one, M. This past week, \u201cD\u201d was engrossed in her homework so there was little opportunity to talk. I had brought supplies for the project \u201cM\u201d and I are working on, a cardboard resort (her idea). \u201cM\u201d assigned the task of making the lounge chairs to me while she began to work on the mosaic for the floor of the pool. \u201cM\u201d and \u201cD\u201d sat at the island counter and I sat at the dining table all within a few feet of one another. I began to cut cardboard into two sizes of rectangles one slightly smaller than the other and then cut a slit into the larger piece in order to slip the smaller one through. The result looks like the letter \u201cY,\u201d but when balanced, closely resembled an Adirondack chair without arms. \u201cM\u201d approved and I proceeded to make 12 chairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

While I was making the chairs I noticed how quiet the room was, \u201cD\u201d at work on her studies, \u201cM\u201d <\/span>making the mosaic, and me with the chairs. The stillness was palpable. The only sounds were the thoughts in our heads, and while I can\u2019t speak for the girls, my thoughts were minimal while I focused on what I was doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love the feeling of <\/span>calmness<\/span><\/i> that comes with and follows this kind of attention. I have practiced <\/span>giving full attention to the task at hand<\/b> and believe this is one of my strengths. When fully present, I find that time slows down. <\/span>Sharing the sound of silence<\/b> with the girls was magical. <\/span>Happiness<\/span><\/i> prevailed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I have been fully vaccinated I now meet up with my granddaughters once a week after school. Oftentimes I will have a conversation with the older one, D, and then work on a building project with the younger one, M. This past week, \u201cD\u201d was engrossed in her homework so there was little opportunity …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-example","7":"anons"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"j_forster","author_link":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/author\/j_forster\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Since I have been fully vaccinated I now meet up with my granddaughters once a week after school. Oftentimes I will have a conversation with the older one, D, and then work on a building project with the younger one, M. This past week, \u201cD\u201d was engrossed in her homework so there was little opportunity…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}