{"id":4877,"date":"2012-12-28T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2012-12-28T07:02:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T13:02:38","slug":"christmas-geranium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/christmas-geranium\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Geranium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_1487.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4878\" title=\"Winter Geranium\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_1487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_1487.jpg 853w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_1487-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_1487-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The view outside the upstairs window is a study of white snow on brown-grey tree limbs.<br \/>\nSun gleams through the windowpane, but the glass feels like ice.<br \/>\nWinter crowds too close around our house.<br \/>\nDarkness falls too soon at night and leaves too late each morning.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the ivy geranium is thriving.<br \/>\nIt nearly succumbed to<a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/2012\/10\/the-bully-at-our-house\/\"> a vinca vine bully<\/a> two short months ago,<br \/>\nAnd survived a late October transplant into an old washtub<br \/>\nTo make a vigorous comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, as daylight grew scarce,<br \/>\nThe ivy geranium produced first one bud and then another.<br \/>\nMere inches from the icy windowpane,<br \/>\nThe buds stretched toward the light.<\/p>\n<p>First one bloomed and then the other during this week of Christmas,<br \/>\nVibrant, pink reminders of the power of weakness:<br \/>\nThe power of freedom from bullies,<br \/>\nThe power of weak December light,<br \/>\nThe power of a baby in a manger,<br \/>\nAnd the power of tiny seeds hidden under the snow, waiting for spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The view outside the upstairs window is a study of white snow on brown-grey tree limbs. 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