{"id":5149,"date":"2017-01-27T15:16:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2017-01-27T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:24:23","slug":"imagine-what-it-means-to-come-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=5149","title":{"rendered":"Imagine What It Means to Come Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3902\" style=\"width: 698px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?attachment_id=3902\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3902\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3902\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Transparency.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"516\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Transparency.jpg 688w, https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Transparency-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transparency (photo by Niels via GoPro)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Imagine what it really means to come together. When we are each filled with illusions, pouring our energy into misunderstandings, planting ourselves in cul-de-sacs of thought leading nowhere&#8230; we can only come together as a milling crowd, a mob of weak character. We will find comfort, temporarily, in such an arrangement&#8211; this illusion of power-by-numbers&#8211; but we will be unable to solve or resolve anything. First, we must be broken, stripped bare of our comforting delusions; we must be taken down to our roots. We will be parsed, pared and pruned&#8230; until we are transparent to ourselves, invisible&#8230; as only the fertile soil remains as the basis for our commonality. And then the rose will rise up in the Spring, with the dandelions, among the towering conifers&#8211; each infinite in its potential. The Forest will breathe with One Life, nurturing each in its quest for the Sun. Imagine what it really means to come together\u2026<\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5149-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/18Come-Together.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/18Come-Together.mp3\">http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/18Come-Together.mp3<\/a><\/audio>(Come Together, written by The Beatles, performed by my band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielskunze.com\/musical_endeavours.html\">Missing Peac<\/a>e, live in Whitehorse, 2001)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine what it really means to come together. When we are each filled with illusions, pouring our energy into misunderstandings, planting ourselves in cul-de-sacs of thought leading nowhere&#8230; we can only come together as a milling crowd, a mob of (&hellip;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=5149\">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}