{"id":31,"date":"2026-03-28T04:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2026-03-28T04:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:35:17","slug":"31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/31\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>March 27 2026-10:55pm <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My body is slumped at my desk. I stare at the ceiling. Dissociated from the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But my soul\u2014sits cross-legged, peering down from a peak, nearly the range of Niagara Falls, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Distant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And transfixed on elegance, how the sky dissolves\u2014horizon, then mist and blue. With landslide, careening into cityscape. How blue covers what feels like a 3,000 kilometer drop\u2014depth disappearing into a dust bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That blue expanse, draws me back without permission\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am haunted by: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Our silhouettes against its sunset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Your warmth pouring through your sweater into my skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-How your happiness continues to leave signatures in my face, proof that it too lives here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-My ray of sunshine with soft blue&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eyes that carried a sweet dizziness, a fragrance that escaped mid atmosphere as living souls tangled lazily in light, delighting in joy for our own company, drinking in the blue, the vastness, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The distance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darling, all of it\u2026banished by a deplorable memory,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot reconcile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I stare coldly at this dull paint and boxed in ceiling. My spirit jarred by the Kilimanjaro drop from its serenity\u2014 listlessly falls into rumination\u2014and wonders\u2026at the bitterness of your memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You once felt so beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 27 2026-10:55pm My body is slumped at my desk. I stare at the ceiling. Dissociated from the world. But my soul\u2014sits cross-legged, peering down from a peak, nearly the range of Niagara Falls, Distant. And transfixed on elegance, how the sky dissolves\u2014horizon, then mist and blue. With landslide, careening into cityscape. How blue covers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypurplephernalia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}