{"id":303,"date":"2010-05-28T21:29:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T04:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2011-07-31T17:38:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T00:38:35","slug":"painting-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/painting-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a while sense I posted anything, huh? I mean the blog is called a design a <em>day<\/em> and I haven&#8217;t posted for a month. Well, two jobs can do that for you. The little free time you get definitely doesn&#8217;t want to be in front of a computer. Thanks to Memorial Day however, I got a little extra time to paint. Sadly, I couldn&#8217;t come up with something to paint so I instead made some calligraphy. I&#8217;m not very good at it but that&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t do it too much.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was looking for a Chinese poem to write and I found one by Du Fu. Its called <em>Traveling Again<\/em> and I think its beautiful. Here is the translation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I remember the temple, this route I&#8217;ve travelled before,<br \/>\nI recall the bridge as I cross it again.<br \/>\nIt seems the hills and rivers have been waiting,<br \/>\nThe flowers and willows all are selfless now.<br \/>\nThe field is sleek and vivid, thin mist shines,<br \/>\nOn soft sand, the sunlight&#8217;s colour shows it&#8217;s late.<br \/>\nAll the traveller&#8217;s sorrow fades away,<br \/>\nWhat better place to rest than this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It talks about the grandeur of coming to a place you&#8217;ve been before. Its like when I go back to Nevada after a long time or when I return home from there. Things seem like I have been gone for centuries and yet, feel exactly how I left them. A confidence builds up inside you from remembering what happened in each corner you pass by. Its like traveling to a place you&#8217;ve been creates a catalyst of reminiscing. Either way, it makes me happy to go some where, even if its a train of thought I haven&#8217;t had for a couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I dreaded being unemployed for three months, there was something in them that made me happy. I always try to believe that every moment is perfect. When crap happens though its hard to think that way. I think this poem talks about how in a day, week, month, or even year, every situation looks desirable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-304\" title=\"Traveling Again\" src=\"http:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/blog_05_28_10.jpg\" alt=\"Poem in Chinese Calligraphy\" width=\"580\" height=\"1235\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever go somewhere that you haven&#8217;t been to for a really long time? Doesn&#8217;t it bring back memories, both good and bad, that make you celebrate that place? Well Du Fu did in a poem called Traveling Again and I&#8217;m going to have to agree with him. <a href=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/painting-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[7],"tags":[110,40,112,111],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-typography","tag-calligraphy","tag-china","tag-memories","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}