{"id":11365,"date":"2017-07-31T07:58:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T14:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=11365"},"modified":"2017-07-31T07:58:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T14:58:27","slug":"the-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2017\/07\/31\/the-dash\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Space and Time 1<\/em>, acrylic on canvas, 57×70, one in a series of three I painted, now presented by Westervelt Fine Art in Mission Viejo, California.
\nWhether it fits as illustration for the brief dash of our lives, you decide.<\/h6>\n

I heard a talk where speaker Beth Moore instructed each in her audience to write the beginnings of their tombstone. First is our name, then our birth date, then a dash. That much we know. Someone else will supply the last date. Meantime, it’s the dash in the middle that makes all the difference.<\/p>\n

Pretty brief . . . a dash between two dates.<\/p>\n

In typography there’s an “en” dash and there’s an “em” dash, the latter being longer. Who knows which applies to our lives? Either way, it’s only a dash.<\/p>\n

“Life is a vapor. It appears for a little while and then it vanishes<\/em>.” That’s James 4:14, just one of the Bible’s 48 such reminders.<\/p>\n

Or by The Rollings Stones:<\/p>\n

Here comes just another day<\/em>
\n That’s drifting away<\/em>
\n Every time I draw a breath<\/em>
\n It’s dying away<\/em>
\n First the sun and then the moon<\/em>
\n One of them will be around soon<\/em>
\n Slipping away<\/em>
\n Slipping away<\/em>
\n Drifting away<\/em>
\n Slipping away.*<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s something to think about. It’s the dash between our dates where we’re doing what we’re doing.<\/p>\n

Pretty brief.<\/p>\n

Make it count today.<\/p>\n

______________<\/p>\n

* Slipping Away<\/em> by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s our brief dash in the longer race, small in terms of the wider world, but for each of us, everything. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11365"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12254,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions\/12254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}