{"id":3145,"date":"2010-10-18T19:54:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2010-10-20T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T20:41:03","slug":"the-road-less-traveled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/18\/the-road-less-traveled\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Less Traveled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3146\" title=\"tThe Path Least Traveled\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thepathleasttraveled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thepathleasttraveled.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thepathleasttraveled-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, when I went for a walk this is what I saw, a grassy path leading off into the distance. A path covered in dry leaves, dead tree limbs and autumn brush.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea the road I had chosen to explore this morning would offer up so many wonderful surprises. As I stood in silence watching the colors shift and change over the landscape, the sun moved slowly overhead creating shadow and light. Such beauty!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3147\" title=\"Beautiful Tree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/walnuttree2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/walnuttree2.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/walnuttree2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several hours later, as I sit here at my desk before the window and type, edit, ponder and muse. The sun is slowly sinking in the west. It is time to close the windows and draw the blinds. To light candles and reflect on the day &#8230; turn inward, and snuggle deep into my favorite chair with a book. xo<\/p>\n<p><strong>thought for the day;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,<br \/>\nAnd sorry I could not travel both<br \/>\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood<br \/>\nAnd looked down one as far as I could<br \/>\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/p>\n<p>Then took the other, as just as fair,<br \/>\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,<br \/>\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;<br \/>\nThough as for that the passing there<br \/>\nHad worn them really about the same,<\/p>\n<p>And both that morning equally lay<br \/>\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.<br \/>\nOh, I kept the first for another day!<br \/>\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,<br \/>\nI doubted if I should ever come back.<\/p>\n<p>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br \/>\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:<br \/>\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I&#8211;<br \/>\nI took the one less traveled by,<br \/>\nAnd that has made all the difference<br \/>\n~ Robert Frost<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Everyday Goddessing\u00a0 is about       sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful       Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a       wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and  that      everything we need and are looking for is already inside\u00a0 each  of  us.  \u2013    Rose Arizmendi<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, when I went for a walk this is what I saw, a grassy path leading off into the distance. A path covered in dry leaves, dead tree limbs and autumn brush. I had no idea the road I had chosen to explore this morning would offer up so many wonderful surprises. 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