{"id":1140,"date":"2013-10-18T14:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T19:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2013-10-18T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:00:37","slug":"poem-feet-grounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/poem-feet-grounded\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Feet Grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">People who insist on having their feet firmly on the ground<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Often become intimately familiar with the top of their shoes<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The attachment to knowing and control, and the quest for security, can lead to a focus too narrow for one&#8217;s own good.\u00a0 So-called realism can lead to tunnel vision.\u00a0 Plus, sticking with the feet metaphor, to move, walk, or run, you need to lift your feet off the ground.\u00a0 In fact, the more mobile, agile, adaptive you are, the more attention you need to pay to your environment, especially new information coming into view or from the horizon.\u00a0 It can be an elusive wisdom striking a balance of being familiar with where you are at and taking in and processing emerging information extending out from oneself.\u00a0 Like I have been known to say: It takes a big man to have their head in the clouds and their feet on the ground.\u00a0 May you grow to wondrously fit whatever is in your path, rising to any occasion, or nimbly navigating any narrow passages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who insist on having their feet firmly on the ground Often become intimately familiar with the top of their shoes The attachment to knowing and control, and the quest for security, can lead to a focus too narrow for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/poem-feet-grounded\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[400,341,481,658,94,659,53,389],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-balance","tag-control","tag-environment","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-security","tag-short-poems","tag-wisdom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Feet Grounded | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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