{"id":558,"date":"2010-05-10T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2012-02-19T01:14:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T06:14:32","slug":"two-showers-and-a-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Two showers and a mother&#8217;s day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel to Portland 3 weekends in a row.\u00a0 First Jennifer&#8217;s shower which was lovely given\u00a0 by 3 or 4 of her good friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?attachment_id=559\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-559\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-559   alignnone\" title=\"photo7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo7\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo7-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo7-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo7.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-536\" style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?attachment_id=536\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-536\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-536\" title=\"lilys-quilt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/lilys-quilt.jpg\" alt=\"Lily's guilt and Lily's Mom. \" width=\"247\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily&#39;s quilt and Lily&#39;s Mom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?attachment_id=560\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-560\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-560   aligncenter\" title=\"photo3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo3-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second weekend was a shower for Megan with many friends and family<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?attachment_id=561\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-561\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-561 alignleft\" title=\"photo5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo5-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo5\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo5-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo5.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?attachment_id=562\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-562\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-562\" title=\"photo2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo2-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?attachment_id=563\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-563\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-563\" title=\"photo4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo4\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo4-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo4-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo4.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend was mother&#8217;s day spent with both Trev and Jennifer and Nick and Megan.\u00a0 Lovely experience.\u00a0 To this I added the potential for weaving a baby blanket:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?attachment_id=564\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-564\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-564  aligncenter\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And was respirited by a visit to the house concert at Licia. Marian Grebanier, Cosmas Magaya,\u00a0 Nathan Beck, and Eric Orem performed many traditional songs with Cosmas telling stories about the mbira and the songs. He also said that he was the last member alive of his original mbira group which made it very lovely to play with Marian and Nathan who are long time mbira players and great friends to him.\u00a0 He said that the political situation is getting better in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/?attachment_id=568\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-568\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" title=\"photo6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo6\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo6-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo6-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/photo6.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was so charmed by the evening, I felt once again like I could trudge along and love mbira even though it is a great mystery how that love came to me and wrapped me in its arms.<\/p>\n<p>The Shona people feel so familiar.\u00a0 I feel part of the tribe, part of the people, part of the music.\u00a0 My Ashland mbira partner wrote while I was in the concert that we must get together this week.\u00a0 It has been so hard to do so since i am traveling and he is in Grants Pass.<\/p>\n<p>New babies and existing grandchildren (Bennett), music, and weaving, are all part of what I can live with in Portland, what welcome me.\u00a0 Blogging has helped me to sort out what will remain.\u00a0 My children Trev, Nick, and Anna have been instrumental in reminding me that all I need is love.. to love and be loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel to Portland 3 weekends in a row.\u00a0 First Jennifer&#8217;s shower which was lovely given\u00a0 by 3 or 4 of her good friends. The second weekend was a shower for Megan with many friends and family This weekend was mother&#8217;s day spent with both Trev and Jennifer and Nick and Megan.\u00a0 Lovely experience.\u00a0 To this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aprilponders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}