{"id":478,"date":"2008-10-27T21:58:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T04:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=478"},"modified":"2008-10-27T21:58:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T04:58:19","slug":"rekindled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Rekindled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. \u00a0Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Albert Schweitzer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometime our own words just don&#8217;t cut it.<\/p>\n<p>To my friends and family who wrote, called, and commented, I am forever grateful.\u00a0 I could not have imagined loving you all more when I pulled away from home last month.\u00a0 It is, without question, the sweetest reward. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All is well.\u00a0 Today I worked on some contingency plans, did my laundry (in a machine&#8230; so cool) and went for a hike.\u00a0 Life is good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I revisited several interviews that I had not had time to review and discovered a gem.\u00a0 While I was passing through Santa Rosa, New Mexico, I met a kindred spirit in Vicki Sexton.\u00a0 Vicki and I are close in age and share a love of scooters.\u00a0 She told me about the basket that her husband custom made so that her dog could ride along with her.\u00a0 A real character, Vicki has an infectious smile that lights up\u00a0the room.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0\" width=\"400\" height=\"15\" id=\"xspf_player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/vicki-sexton.mp3&song_title='Vicki Sexton'&player_title='Vicki Sexton'\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#e6e6e6\" \/><embed src=\"\/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/vicki-sexton.mp3&song_title='Vicki Sexton'&player_title='Vicki Sexton'\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#e6e6e6\" width=\"400\" height=\"15\" name=\"xspf_player\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/wp-content\/uploads\/vicki-sexton.mp3\" target=_blank>Vicki Sexton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. \u00a0Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. &#8211; Albert Schweitzer Sometime our own words just don&#8217;t cut it. To my friends and family who wrote, called, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}