{"id":2011,"date":"2017-05-07T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2017-05-07T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T21:31:20","slug":"happy-spring-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/safaraf.com\/?p=2011","title":{"rendered":"Happy Spring-ish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hi Healthy Trekkers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hope you are all doing well with the season changes. It has been a slow somewhat backwards at times opening to Spring here in the Massachusetts area where I am based. This is in part why when I said RETURN IN SPRING&#8230;I didnt write with the first day of spring, March 20th. I really have not been feeling its beginnings in full. Although I am still working on tweaking my website I figured it was best to at least greet you all with my hello and first blog post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I reflect on this year and my decision to take a break from blogging. For personal reasons as well as the climate of the socio-political changes in our community I found myself feeling completely saturated. My health was affected and so I needed to give myself over to the process of regularly being in touch with myself and this required focus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was hard to leave blogging and I needed to reiterate to myself consistently that it was ok as I hoped I wasn&#8217;t leaving anyone feeling abandoned. My hope was that there was enough here with my blogs thus far for people to explore and use. I realize I might have lost a lot of viewers to the site but I feel confident that those who seek and return will be the right audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Updates to the site will be here and there to pages. You will still get a chance to view my posts as I make changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Reminder: Posts are bi-monthly. \u00a0However, for the remainder of Spring I will post 1x a month. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>So the next blog post:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Sunday, 21st of May<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Sunday, 18th of June \u00a0(Summer begins June 21st)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Followed there after bi-monthly.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Here is what I seek to include more of:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Writing- my own reflections<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Quotes- inspirations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Links- communities that are supporting UC and Crohns and others generally helpful for body, mind and soul.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I will continue to post in the categories as listed:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Article &amp; Film Reviews<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Comfort Remedies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Food and Nutrition<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Healthy Mind<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My Local Eats<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Neighborhood Gatherings and Suppliers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks so much for your patience during this time. Will look forward to our continued journey. Please see events page for the <strong>upcoming 2017 Macrobiotic Summer Conference, hosted by Eastover in Lenox MA<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In health,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Safara<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Healthy Trekkers, Hope you are all doing well with the season changes. 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