{"id":544,"date":"2015-08-05T14:12:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2015-08-05T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:12:31","slug":"when-stressed-remember-the-long-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/05\/when-stressed-remember-the-long-view\/","title":{"rendered":"When Stressed, Remember The Long View"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wachusett<\/a><\/p>\n

What a view! <\/p>\n

Thank you DP, a participant in last week’s group hike, for sharing this. We had our biggest group hike ever – 17 participants – including one for whom hiking was totally new. It was a tiny walk for Will and Jeff but I was so proud of a few participants who had to really struggle and work hard at the motor planning element. I learned some important leader-things to better facilitate larger groups with individuals of widely varying hiking speeds.<\/p>\n

As I’m in stressed work mode, with multiple priorities\/never enough time, this is my screen saver for the day. It’s a reminder that there’s a horizon bigger than the little pebbles in my day – and a long view that’s open for the taking, if I just look beyond the rocks and roots. Like all the independent clean-up and help-Mom tasks Will did in succession this morning while awaiting his school bus. Like Jeff’s trying hard to sequence new steps together to make a different lunch for himself this morning – a bagel with cream cheese – and his success at totally entering the shower independently.<\/p>\n

As I beat up on myself for spending an hour watching a dumb movie rerun last night instead of working – I can think about how every once in a while – we – even I – do something right – like starting our hiking club, and knowing I helped others get beyond their ability to the brighter, longer horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a view! Thank you DP, a participant in last week’s group hike, for sharing this. We had our biggest group hike ever – 17 participants – including one for whom hiking was totally new. It was a tiny walk for Will and Jeff but I was so proud of a few participants who had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}