{"id":569,"date":"2008-04-28T23:21:47","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T06:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2008-04-28T23:28:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T06:28:12","slug":"a75-california-white-sage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"#a75 :: California white sage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/042808.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/042808-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" title=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-570\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"3\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/042808-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/042808-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/042808.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/la.metblogs.com\/2007\/08\/02\/keith-hunter-artist-mentor-most-excellent-man\/\">Keith Hunter left us<\/a> almost nine months ago.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting to burn this bundle of sage for him &#8211; perhaps on the anniversary of his passing, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-usa.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">purchase<\/a>  perhaps when his widow, <a href=\"http:\/\/cheap-cialis-pills.net\" title=\"buy ed pills\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">information pills<\/a>  our dear friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/pharmacyviagra.net\" title=\"ed\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">more about<\/a>  decides it&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p>The lore around sage is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=burning+sage&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a\">thick and changeable<\/a>: It stems from the rites of the aboriginal people whom we conquering louts bloodily shoved off their land hundreds of years ago &#8211; and has been altered, adapted, stolen, monkeyed with and otherwise revered by generations of hippies in Topanga Canyon and beyond ever since &#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My family has burned sage in the past to bless a new home &#8211; sort of a quasi-pagan thing that we (a lapsed but still god-loving  Catholic and his very spiritual but religiously undecided wife and children) enjoy doing, as a way of clearing the air, and ritualizing a passing from one world to the next.<\/p>\n<p>Its dried leaves hold back a sort of spiritual release, storing relief until those who need it most are ready.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, we keep remembering scraps and tatters of a good, vibrant, loving man, who was as powerful and alive as you are right now, until cancer took him away.<\/p>\n<p>Keith was 41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Hunter left us almost nine months ago. I&#8217;ve been waiting to burn this bundle of sage for him &#8211; perhaps on the anniversary of his passing, purchase perhaps when his widow, information pills our dear friend, more about decides it&#8217;s time. The lore around sage is thick and changeable: It stems from the rites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}