{"id":12884,"date":"2023-05-06T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T23:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=12884"},"modified":"2023-05-06T19:56:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T00:56:36","slug":"the-mysteries-of-attraction-to-understand-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=12884","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the Beauty Full Mysteries of Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many billions of leaves lay on the forest floor?
\nI’m attracted to one of them. Why?
\nI pick it up. Gingerly. It’s dry and fragile. I put it in my pocket.
\nAnd hope that it does not turn to dust there.
\nIt joins other found objects brought home to ponder.
\nBones, bark, stones\u2026 attracted to their hue, texture, form, hidden stories\u2026
\n\"\"Over days, weeks, months, years, I watch them.
\nThey seem to my eyes as songs to my ears.
\nWe change together. I see them differently. As I hear songs differently.
\nAs the light changes, or the point of view changes.
\nAs I change.
\nDo they continue to attract my attention? Why? Just me? or You too?
\nUniversally attractive?<\/p>\n

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How many billions of leaves lay on the forest floor? I’m attracted to one of them. Why? I pick it up. Gingerly. It’s dry and fragile. I put it in my pocket. And hope that it does not turn to dust there. It joins other found objects brought home to ponder. Bones, bark, stones\u2026 attracted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,55,19,33,17,28,29,50,61,39,38,79,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-flora","category-hand-made","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-travel","category-self-expression","category-still-life","category-tao","category-things","category-up-close","category-wabi-sabi","category-zen","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12894,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions\/12894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}