{"id":964,"date":"2017-08-19T06:28:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T06:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/?p=964"},"modified":"2017-08-19T06:28:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T06:28:26","slug":"living-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/living-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I spent more time in the dirt. I had spring-time dreams of generating enough greens to supplement my diet and quickly realized the many lessons of the soil I had yet to learn. The earth I put in my little garden is still new to me and I know it as living system which requires nurturing and nutrients. We are still quite early in our relationship and I look forward to fostering more of an understanding of the balance needed to create the crops that will hopefully supplement the produce for my little family one day.<\/p>\n<p>There is something so compelling about watching growth take place. With seeds, it&#8217;s additionally fulfilling because they become their purpose. I imagine that seeds do not wonder what to be when they &#8220;grow up&#8221;. They are the thing they are meant to be, at every stage. I am a little envious of this clarity of knowledge. As I near the completion of my undergrad, after many years of procrastination, I am finding myself wondering what the next step should be. I have stable income, but it does not provide me with the simple beauty of a plant\u2019s purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Considering who I am in this global climate has been on the forefront of my mind throughout this course. While my habits are more carbon neutral than the average American, I cannot reconcile my deep and abiding love of travel with their environmental cost. I realize how unwilling I am to sacrifice the flights that allow me to experience so much. What is ironic, is that I am most frequently seeking natural beauties. So, in the quest to see more of the earth I am directly contributing to the harming of her. I have several trips planned at the end of this summer, and I will need to investigate how many trees my flights are worth!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 3514px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/abm-website-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/rdmag.com\/s3fs-public\/042715_rd_flight.jpg\" width=\"3504\" height=\"2336\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/www.rdmag.com\/news\/2015\/04\/flight-greener-driving<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I spent more time in the dirt. I had spring-time dreams of generating enough greens to supplement my diet and quickly realized the many lessons of the soil I had yet to learn. The earth I put in my little garden is still new to me and I know it as living system which requires nurturing and nutrients&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/living-life\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,14,15],"tags":[279,262,192,215,40],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-energy","category-soil","category-water","tag-climate-complexity","tag-ecological-footprint","tag-energy","tag-seeds","tag-soil-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}