{"id":7848,"date":"2021-05-17T08:19:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/?p=7848"},"modified":"2021-05-17T08:19:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:19:56","slug":"monday-mental-health-check-in-ouroboros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/monday-mental-health-check-in-ouroboros\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Mental Health Check In: Ouroboros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the Encyclopedia Britannica&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&lt;i&gt;Ouroboros<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>emblematic serpent of ancient Egypt and&nbsp;<\/em><em>Greek origins&nbsp;represented with its&nbsp;tail&nbsp;in its mouth, continually devouring itself and being reborn from itself. A&nbsp;gnostic&nbsp;and&nbsp;alchemical symbol, Ouroboros expresses the unity of all things, material and spiritual, which never disappear but perpetually change form in an eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation<\/em>.&lt;\/i&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a concept I have been thinking about a lot these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of change can be a scary one. Just look back at the past year as to how much you have changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things that were desperately important before the pandemic aren\u2019t as important anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things that have become important to me sometime surprise me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pause gave me a chance to reset and really think about what is important to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somethings didn\u2019t change but other things did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to keep up with the good habits I have learned and unlearn some of the bad ones I picked up during my time in isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend we are off to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pensacon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pensacon.com<\/a>\u00a0Pensacon. Come on by and say hi. It is our first convention in over a year, and we are looking forward to it. Yes, we are taking precautions even though we are fully vaccinated. I think we all need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a couple of puppets to bust out over the next couple of days and packing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feels almost normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am grateful for concepts to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Encyclopedia Britannica&nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Ouroboros,&nbsp;emblematic serpent of ancient Egypt and&nbsp;Greek origins&nbsp;represented with its&nbsp;tail&nbsp;in its mouth, continually devouring itself and being reborn from itself. A&nbsp;gnostic&nbsp;and&nbsp;alchemical symbol, Ouroboros expresses the unity of all things, material and spiritual, which never disappear but perpetually change form in an eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation.&lt;\/i&gt; This is a concept I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7849,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848\/revisions\/7849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}