{"id":374,"date":"2017-05-29T05:40:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T05:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/?p=374"},"modified":"2024-03-05T23:53:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:53:39","slug":"the-heart-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/the-heart-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a school this week to read one of my books,<em>\u00a0I AM With You All Ways<\/em>, to the children in the third grade. The principal was wonderful, the teachers were wonderful and the children were so attentive and responsive.<br \/>\nWe talked about the writing process and how you get ideas and how to keep a journal and think about illustrations. I shared several photographs I had taken and how they became illustrations in my books.<br \/>\nIt was a heartwarming experience as m<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">y granddaughter was my assistant and helped me show the pictures and paintings and several heart rocks that I brought along!<br \/>\nAs I shared some pictures I had taken of clouds, the children were excited to tell about clouds they had seen that looked like horses and super heroes and a penguin in a motor boat! As they looked at my pictures of clouds (<em>Messages in the Clouds<\/em>)\u2026 There was an elephant~ or was it an ostrich? There was an angel ~ or was it an airplane? There was a phoenix ~ or was it a peacock? And there was a heart cloud ~ I asked what message a heart would tell us ~ expecting them to say \u2018love\u2019\u2026<br \/>\nA little girl with beautiful purple glasses raised her hand right in front of me\u2026 she said, \u201cWell, when I saw a heart cloud, my Grammy had just died and I thought she was telling me she loved me.\u201d<br \/>\nThere it was! My whole point\u2026 sitting there in this little girl!<br \/>\nMessages from Spirit come to us in many ways and in many forms \u2026 we just pray to be attuned to our environment and to be aware enough to see and listen for Spirit\u2019s voice\u2026<br \/>\nGod bless the children! \u2026for their openness and their acceptance\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a school this week to read one of my books,\u00a0I AM With You All Ways, to the children in the third grade. The principal was wonderful, the teachers were wonderful and the children were so attentive and responsive. We talked about the writing process and how you get ideas and how to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-resilient-children","category-child-development-awareness","category-education-insights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simpreative.in\/Projects\/marian-staylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}