{"id":880,"date":"2023-05-11T20:42:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T20:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/?p=880"},"modified":"2023-05-11T20:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T20:42:32","slug":"january-19-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/11\/january-19-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"January 19, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last Friday, I took a picture of the sunset from my kitchen window.\u00a0 A few minutes later, \u201cR\u201d, my daughter-in-law texted me a couple of pictures she took of the same sunset from the train while crossing the Manhattan Bridge.\u00a0 At the time, I thought it serendipity.\u00a0 Then on Monday, gkid \u201cM\u201d sent me a photo of the sunset.\u00a0 Since we began the Cousin Chat in the dark days of the pandemic, I have posted sun and moon pictures and now every so often one of the Cousins will do the same.\u00a0 I have come to believe that I may have had some influence and that it wasn\u2019t serendipitous at all.<\/p>\n

I am particularly lucky that I can see the sunrise, sunset and the full moon from my apartment.\u00a0 It is no big deal to capture these images with my camera (aka cell phone), print them as gifts or make a video or two.\u00a0 What strikes me as I look in wonder at the various pictures of mine and those offered by others, that no matter the different vantage points, city, state, surroundings or even quality, we are all looking at the same thing. We are many with different points of view striving toward the same goal.<\/p>\n

While some of the pictures are more striking than others they all have one thing in common other than the object itself.\u00a0 Everyone stopped what they were doing, took a picture of the sun and shared it with me.\u00a0 My strength here is taking the first step<\/strong> in sharing the photos with others and acknowledging<\/strong> the beautiful photos in return.\u00a0 It is both fun and reward<\/em>ing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, I took a picture of the sunset from my kitchen window.\u00a0 A few minutes later, \u201cR\u201d, my daughter-in-law texted me a couple of pictures she took of the same sunset from the train while crossing the Manhattan Bridge.\u00a0 At the time, I thought it serendipity.\u00a0 Then on Monday, gkid \u201cM\u201d sent me a …<\/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":[6,14,11,8,13,12,7,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-example","7":"tag-articulatingyourstrengths","8":"tag-positive-psychology","9":"tag-positivemoments","10":"tag-positivepsychology","11":"tag-positivity","12":"tag-strength","13":"tag-strengths","14":"tag-strengthsfocused","15":"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":"Last Friday, I took a picture of the sunset from my kitchen window.\u00a0 A few minutes later, \u201cR\u201d, my daughter-in-law texted me a couple of pictures she took of the same sunset from the train while crossing the Manhattan Bridge.\u00a0 At the time, I thought it serendipity.\u00a0 Then on Monday, gkid \u201cM\u201d sent me a…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articulatingyourstrengths.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}