{"id":352,"date":"2014-01-04T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurelantur.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/04\/2014-1-1-little-nests\/"},"modified":"2014-01-04T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T05:15:00","slug":"2014-1-1-little-nests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/04\/2014-1-1-little-nests\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Nests"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 472px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robot-hugs.com\/nest\/\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/52c51034e4b050ec8fce65af\/1388646453342\/2013-05-20-Nest.png?w=900\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.robot-hugs.com\/nest\/\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.robot-hugs.com\/nest\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I saw this comic the other day, and loved it. I often confuse my introversion for depression.<\/p>\n<p>I have not set up my life to support my introversion. I am a teacher, a parent and I have an extrovert partner. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I get overwhelmed and need to recharge, I often fail to recognize my need for alone time, and mistake it for depression, fatigue or illness. And I hide in bed and watch way too many movies. This does not recharge me. Instead my body hurts, and I feel like crap about how I am spending my time.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest thing to do when I need to recharge is to ask for what I deeply need, which is to be left alone, uninterrupted, for creative time.&nbsp;Rather than a nest of blankets, I need a nest of time, space and art supplies.<\/p>\n<p>What I love about this comic is that the person in need is being so lovingly cared for. It would be wonderful for someone to say,&nbsp;&#8220;I set up some paper, water and paints for you. I&#8217;m going to leave you alone for a couple of hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The clincher of this comic though, is that the person in the nest is not left alone. As much as I love my solitude, I also love to quietly create with others. The energy of others lost in their own world, I love that.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst my usual tired and recycled New Years&#8217;s resolutions, this year I want to commit to providing creative solitude for myself on a more regular basis. I also want to create time for healing creativity with others. We all need it.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this comic the other day, and loved it. I often confuse my introversion for depression. I have not set up my life to support my introversion. I am a teacher, a parent and I have an extrovert partner. &nbsp; When I get overwhelmed and need to recharge, I often fail to recognize my need for alone time, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}