{"id":11578,"date":"2010-11-01T17:32:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T23:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:47:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:47:56","slug":"i-am-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2010\/11\/i-am-home\/","title":{"rendered":"I am home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stood eyes closed, arms outstretched, bare feet on the earth, as I felt my roots penetrate deep into the earth, through the ancestors I carry with me with this lifeforce, right to the very first ancestor that links us all. I felt the light run all the way from zero, through my body and out the crown of my head, reaching to the stars and beyond in a long white light. I am rooted in this light. The thread of life. I am home. Everywhere I go. I am free. The search is over.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Kelly found me and took this photo a few minutes later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=463229511992&amp;set=a.420789076992.191965.641296992\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11579\" title=\"&quot;The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.&quot;~ Victor Hugo\" src=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/P1000862-360x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning I was ready to leave InanItah. Every question I had when I came is answered. I gathered the pieces of my soul here that were scattered for years. I packed my backpack, fewer things than I came with, hugged the friends who had become my family goodbye. For three months we grew, learned, danced, shouted at and cried together. I will never forget any of their faces, each of their scents, how they each laugh and show love in different ways. I&#8217;m still on Ometepe Island. I don&#8217;t know for how much longer. Every day is taken as a gift here. I&#8217;m enjoying every minute.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m honoured I was chosen to be alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stood eyes closed, arms outstretched, bare feet on the earth, as I felt my roots penetrate deep into the earth, through the ancestors I carry with me with this lifeforce, right to the very first ancestor that links us all. I felt the light run all the way from zero, through my body and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408,213,227,257,223,224,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-food-for-thought","category-nicaragua","category-photos","category-the-pursuit-of-happiness","category-travelog","category-wildishheart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}