{"id":169,"date":"2010-02-22T23:11:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T05:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2010-05-12T15:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T21:27:26","slug":"vqc-35-to-do-or-to-be%e2%80%a6that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"VQC #35: To Do or to Be\u2026that is the question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_352\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/100_37211.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-352\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-352\" title=\"100_3721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/100_37211-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/100_37211-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/100_37211-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/100_37211.jpg 2032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writing in my room<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Is it better to DO or BE?<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My favorite massage therapist Glenda tells me that she calls me Ms. Do because I am always so busy \u201cdoing\u201d something. Well Glenda (who I call Glenda the Good Witch behind her back) may be trying to give me a subtle hint to engage in a little bit more being and a little less doing. She has a point since when I go to her I am usually in knots from all my doings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On this self imposed Vision Quest retreat I have been attempting to heed her advice with mixed success.\u00a0 I have a dilemma. Carnival begins\u00a0here tonight with Juve, which is an all night party.\u00a0 A part of me is drawn by my desire to soak up the culture\u2026another part of me wants to take it easy and another part of me just loves to dance.\u00a0Even now as I write this\u00a0the sound of drums is drifting up from the bay and from the\u00a0village.\u00a0I am going to check in with my instincts but something tells me my more primal instincts are going to win out and I am going to be down in\u00a0town\u2026at least for a little.<\/p>\n<p>(first posted 7.3.09)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Is it better to DO or BE? My favorite massage therapist Glenda tells me that she calls me Ms. Do because I am always so busy \u201cdoing\u201d something. Well Glenda (who I call Glenda the Good Witch behind her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/?p=169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}