{"id":659,"date":"2023-03-10T21:57:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T21:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/?p=659"},"modified":"2023-03-14T20:59:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T20:59:14","slug":"june-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/june-21\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>I met up with granddaughter \u201cM\u201d on her last day of school.&nbsp; Her bag was filled with stuff that she brought home including some poems that she wrote for class.&nbsp; As she read them I recalled a poem that I wrote when I was her age.&nbsp; I can\u2019t remember the whole poem just the first few lines and decided on the bus trip home to update what I had forgotten.&nbsp; Here is the new updated poem:<\/p>\n<p>The birds that fly<\/p>\n<p>way up in the sky<\/p>\n<p>are yours<\/p>\n<p>and mine.<\/p>\n<p>Their feathers<\/p>\n<p>endure all kinds of weather<\/p>\n<p>and guide with grace<\/p>\n<p>to perch in place.<\/p>\n<p>What can we learn from<\/p>\n<p>the birds that fly<\/p>\n<p>high in the sky?<\/p>\n<p>A vision that\u2019s wide<\/p>\n<p>that sees all sides<\/p>\n<p>from high in the sky<\/p>\n<p>the clear eyed bird\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n<p>My strength is not writing poetry or even finding words that rhyme.&nbsp; I do believe one of my strengths here is the ability to <em>share the joy<\/em> that \u201cM\u201d exhibited when reading her poetry and allowing my own inner 3<sup>rd<\/sup> grader to reveal herself through the start of this poem, and later punctuating it with some 60 plus years of experience.&nbsp; The child who believed that the birds belonged to all of us to appreciate and enjoy is part of who I am today.&nbsp; That is my strength, <strong>all-embracing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met up with granddaughter \u201cM\u201d on her last day of school.&nbsp; Her bag was filled with stuff that she brought home including some poems that she wrote for class.&nbsp; As she read them I recalled a poem that I wrote when I was her age.&nbsp; I can\u2019t remember the whole poem just the first &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,11,8,7,9,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-example","7":"tag-articulatingyourstrengths","8":"tag-positivemoments","9":"tag-positivepsychology","10":"tag-strengths","11":"tag-strengthsfocused","12":"tag-strengthsfocusedpractices","13":"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":"Barb","author_link":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/author\/barb\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I met up with granddaughter \u201cM\u201d on her last day of school.&nbsp; Her bag was filled with stuff that she brought home including some poems that she wrote for class.&nbsp; As she read them I recalled a poem that I wrote when I was her age.&nbsp; I can\u2019t remember the whole poem just the first&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}