{"id":3844,"date":"2026-03-27T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:53:26","slug":"sunday-verses-transcendental-meditation-3-29-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3844","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: ‘Transcendental Meditation’ (3\/29\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mistress\u2019 eyes are nothing like the sun.<\/i> (Sonnet 130<\/a>)<\/p>\n

By RAHN ADAMS<\/b><\/p>\n

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MY FAV ARTIST created this for my classroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When you look at a picture, \/ what do you feel first? \/ The colors? The lines? \/ A brain tickle? A thought burst?<\/p>\n

What about the artist, \/ what they<\/i> had in mind \/ when they whet their brush \/ with the tastiest art they could find?<\/p>\n

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FOUR TAKES on the work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Or is your <\/i>take on a painting \/ all that really matters, \/ not the painter’s intent \/ nor the way their paint spatters?<\/p>\n

Is art simply like beauty \u2014 \/ in the eye of the beholder? \/ Is it a silent meditation \/ or a transaction much bolder?<\/p>\n

Me? I can’t answer that \/ because I’m married to my art. \/ I’ve learned to be quiet \/ and just trust that sweet heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mistress\u2019 eyes are nothing like the sun. (Sonnet 130) By RAHN ADAMS When you look at a picture, \/ what do you feel first? \/ The colors? The lines? \/ A brain tickle? A thought burst? What about the artist, \/ what they had in mind \/ when they whet their brush \/ with … Continue reading SUNDAY VERSES: ‘Transcendental Meditation’ (3\/29\/2026)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}