{"id":3429,"date":"2010-11-21T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2010-11-25T00:35:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:35:54","slug":"throw-yourself-like-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3429","title":{"rendered":"Throw Yourself Like Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem, and a watercolor, for late autumn.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ThreeSeeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3430\" title=\"ThreeSeeds\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ThreeSeeds.jpg\" alt=\"ThreeSeeds\" width=\"432\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ThreeSeeds.jpg 600w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ThreeSeeds-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">that brushes your heel as it turns going by,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Now you are only giving food to that final pain<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">which is slowly winding you in the nets of death,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">but to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">is the work; start then, turn to the work.<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">don\u2019t turn your face for that would be to turn it to death,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">and do not let the past weigh down your motion.<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Leave what\u2019s alive in the furrow, what\u2019s dead in yourself,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">for life does not move in the same way as a group of clouds;<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">from your work you will be able one day to gather yourself.<\/span><\/address>\n<p><em>\u2014Miguel de Unamuno<\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Cronos MM', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem, and a watercolor, for late autumn. Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate that brushes your heel as it turns going by, the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant. 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