{"id":2922,"date":"2012-06-12T11:05:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2012-06-12T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:13:20","slug":"battle-of-the-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=2922","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Weed…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s midweek… actually mid week will be tomorrow but it feels like it already. \u00a0So much happening! Last week, I hired someone to come weed the gardens. \u00a0I hate gardening. \u00a0I know, so many of you find it calming etc, yet I have not found that feeling, yet. \u00a0From a young age, my dad woke us up in the summers, to weed the huge garden he had so much pleasure nurturing. \u00a0I hated doing this.<\/p>\n

If I had nothing to do, no laundry, no groceries to shop for, no meals to make, no errands to run… you know, if I didn’t really have a life, I think I would find gardening somewhat ok. \u00a0Sanj is usually the one that will eventually get to weeding the gardens. \u00a0So, last week, when I had someone here weeding, I went out. \u00a0I love being with people. \u00a0So, I squatted down and begin pulling a few weeds while chatting with them. \u00a0The thought crossed my mind, “This is kind of therapeutic…” \u00a0<\/em>Soon I came to a weed that was very stubborn. \u00a0I think this weed felt as if it had been there forever, its roots grabbing on to the deeps of the earth, protesting, as I tried to pull it out. \u00a0I heard a voice saying “be careful<\/em>…” and I thought I was<\/em> being carefully, I mean it’s only weeding. \u00a0I kept yanking. \u00a0Then all of a sudden I found like in a game of tug of war, the weed gave suddenly… and I went falling back. \u00a0As the weed gave, I felt something deep inside me give too, as I felt myself fall back. \u00a0The inside of my tummy felt bad. \u00a0It actually hurt a lot. \u00a0More than the hemorrhoid (well, maybe not) but definitely more than the healing of my wounds. \u00a0I think that the insides where the doctor cut, had been healing fine, until I decided to something so stupid— weeding. \u00a0I’m pretty sure that I tore whatever was trying to heal. \u00a0And it hurt.<\/p>\n

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What hurt more was my pride as I called to tell Sanj that I was wounded. \u00a0He was silent for a minute… and then with puzzlement said, “You never weed. \u00a0Ever. \u00a0Why would you weed now?” \u00a0<\/em>Sigh. \u00a0I know. \u00a0I know. \u00a0And I really don’t know why I did that. \u00a0I guess it seemed harmless. \u00a0 I guess I was thinking how pleased Sanj would be to see my efforts (the part of someone else helping could have been my little secret, if he was impressed).<\/p>\n

It’s been almost a week since my weeding injury. \u00a0As long as I really do take it easy… listen to my body’s chatter, I’m doing good.<\/p>\n

Weeding and I \u00a0have broken up. \u00a0At least for now. \u00a0Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s midweek… actually mid week will be tomorrow but it feels like it already. \u00a0So much happening! Last week, I hired someone to come weed the gardens. \u00a0I hate gardening. \u00a0I know, so many of you find it calming etc, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,6,1,32,13,140,11,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}