{"id":2919,"date":"2019-02-18T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:18:47","slug":"pruning-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/archives\/2919","title":{"rendered":"Pruning &#038; Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peeler-on-pause.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2920\" alt=\"peeler on pause\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peeler-on-pause-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peeler-on-pause-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peeler-on-pause-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/peeler-on-pause.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Pruning<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Before I touch blade to branch <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I walk twice around the tree,<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>studying the relationships <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>of the boughs. Then I cut<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>to enliven the tree <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>with spaciousness.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Big-Muddy-RIver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2921\" alt=\"Big Muddy RIver\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Big-Muddy-RIver-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Big-Muddy-RIver-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Big-Muddy-RIver-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Big-Muddy-RIver.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At last atop the mountain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>we catch our breaths and look back<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>at the sound of avalanche\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>the path of our ascent vanishing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>beneath a great collapse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And when the fury settles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>only cliff remains\u2014the path no more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So now our only hope of return<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>is along the razor\u2019s edge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>traversing the abyss<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>to another peak,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>the further side<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>invisible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Or we may remain here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/quartet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2922\" alt=\"quartet\" src=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/quartet-1024x824.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/quartet-1024x824.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/quartet-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/quartet.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Pruning Before I touch blade to branch I walk twice around the tree, studying the relationships of the boughs. Then I cut to enliven the tree with spaciousness.\u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0 Practice At last atop the mountain we catch our breaths and look back at the sound of avalanche\u2014 the path of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5181,1437,1506,962,9,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}