{"id":5493,"date":"2009-10-24T00:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T05:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2009-10-24T00:42:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T05:42:17","slug":"a-blank-slate-happy-for-no-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-blank-slate-happy-for-no-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"A blank slate, happy for no reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5495\" style=\"width: 118px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/72_0011a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5495\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5495\" title=\"72_0011a\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/72_0011a.jpg\" alt=\"Happy\" width=\"108\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in a great mind space the past week, where my internal dialogue has slowed to almost a halt.\u00a0 When I&#8217;m not doing something, I mean.\u00a0 And when I wake up.\u00a0 Just a nice serene, calm tabula rasa, a blank slate.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s a happy blank slate.\u00a0 Happy for no specific reason.\u00a0 Just a feeling of, as Rumi says, &#8220;I&#8217;m the spirit of freedom riding the winds of joy, the fountain of love in which universes are born in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy.&#8221;\u00a0 Even as I sit to write a blog post, I think:<em> there&#8217;s just nothing I can say that would improve the silence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/faves?sub=addfavbtn&amp;add=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/pix\/fave\/tech-fav-1.png\" alt=\"Add to Technorati Favorites\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: 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I&#8217;m not doing something, I mean.\u00a0 And when I wake up.\u00a0 Just a nice serene, calm tabula rasa, a blank slate.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s a happy blank slate.\u00a0 Happy for no specific reason.\u00a0 Just a 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