{"id":15226,"date":"2021-06-21T17:11:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T21:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=15226"},"modified":"2024-04-10T10:01:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:01:33","slug":"june-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/15226","title":{"rendered":"A June breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cYou know when there is spontaneous creativity when there is no resistance, when there is no anticipation, when there is no regret, when you\u2019re totally present, and you\u2019re experiencing what is called flow, because you know, deep inside you, that your only intention, ultimately, is the progressive expansion of happiness for yourself and for everyone else.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Depak Chopra<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JAD@Wilsons_2021-1-e1625174630317.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/JAD@Wilsons_2021-1-e1625174630317.jpg\" title=\"My thanks to Donna Forgacs for the unexpected portrait!\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/ hspace=\"32\" vspace=22\" align=right \/><\/a> Yes, I\u2019m happy, because I met an elusive goal that\u2019s bugged me since my first experience with creating collage <em>en plein air.<\/em> With unfeigned satisfaction, I finished something entirely on location. This piece will probably mean more to me as a milestone than it might to anyone else. Now I feel better prepared to confront this Saturday\u2019s \u201cPaint the Town\u201d landscape challenge. Unlike last summer\u2019s more relaxed version, this event will be the real deal!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Dixon_DayInJune.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Dixon_DayInJune.jpg\" title=\"Quarry ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"386\" height=\"401\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 420px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 40px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Day in June<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n100% \/ 0% \u2014 site to studio<br \/>\n7.25 x 7.5 inches<br \/>\ncollection of the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou know when there is spontaneous creativity when there is no resistance, when there is no anticipation, when there is no regret, when you\u2019re totally present, and you\u2019re experiencing what is called flow, because you know, deep inside you, that your only intention, ultimately, is the progressive expansion of happiness for yourself and for everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,18,249],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15226"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18009,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226\/revisions\/18009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}