{"id":90,"date":"2010-09-22T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2011-01-15T20:43:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T03:43:51","slug":"4-morning-sun-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Morning Sun Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-91\" title=\"morning sun notes, sep2010\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5274-1024x704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5274-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5274-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5274.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A second day working at my desk in our new house. The windows look out on a small garden of rocks and moss, awash with sun until lunchtime. We are below street level on this side of the house, so there&#8217;s a retaining wall covered with a tangle of jasmine vines. Did you know jasmine leaves turned yellow in fall?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5284.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-92\" title=\"jasmine leaves, sep2010\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5284-1024x752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5284-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5284-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5284.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is also a whispy tree covered in fronds which join the balcony to frame the morning sky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-93\" title=\"whispy tree frame, sep2010\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5277-1024x504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5277-1024x504.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5277-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5277.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the root of the tree, shadows gather as the morning wears on. I sit and work on a dissertation year fellowship application (I&#8217;m doing 4 this fall), struggling with how to make it different from last year&#8217;s application.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5291.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-94\" title=\"sunlight on tree trunk, sep2010\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5291-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5291-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5291-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_5291.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This takes me through documents of random writing from last fall, which surprisingly or not, are about many of the same things still on my mind a year later: wanting children, dreaming about writing children&#8217;s books, and struggling to find creativity in my dissertation project.<\/p>\n<p>A large, black, neighborhood cat poked its head through the open window as I read, startling me with its wide green eyes and plaintive meow.<\/p>\n<p>It is all making me wonder, how much do we really change in one year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second day working at my desk in our new house. The windows look out on a small garden of rocks and moss, awash with sun until lunchtime. We are below street level on this side of the house, so there&#8217;s a retaining wall covered with a tangle of jasmine vines. Did you know jasmine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,17,40],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfieldnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}