{"id":1588,"date":"2022-04-11T12:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T19:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2022-04-11T12:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T19:36:52","slug":"art-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/04\/11\/art-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Art Supplies<\/strong><\/p>\n

I stood
\nat the entry to
\nThe Mystery,<\/p>\n

basking in the
\nLight of the
\nEternal Present,<\/p>\n

where I have
\nno beginning,
\nno end,
\nand I\u2019m forever
\nsafe.<\/p>\n

I looked around and
\nrejoiced in
\nthe freedom
\nof knowing
\nthere is no
\npast here.
\nIt\u2019s vanished.
\nIt doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

Nor can I
\nlay my hands on
\nthe Future.
\nIt\u2019s nowhere
\nto be found.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m free.<\/p>\n

But then
\nI noticed
\nthis moment
\nseems to be
\npredicted by that
\nlast moment,
\neven though
\nit\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n

I saw my
\nfreedom
\nbeing arrested by
\nmy past.<\/p>\n

Just then
\nmy mirror
\nimage
\nemerged from
\nsomewhere in
\nThe Mystery.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome inside,\u201d
\nI said to
\nmy Self.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sell
\nart supplies
\nin here.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s see what
\nyou might be able
\nto do with that
\nnext moment,
\nand the
\nnext one,
\nand the
\none after that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Art Supplies I stood at the entry to The Mystery, basking in the Light of the Eternal Present, where I have no beginning, no end, and I\u2019m forever safe. I looked around and rejoiced in the freedom of knowing there is no past here. It\u2019s vanished. It doesn\u2019t exist. Nor can I lay my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t