{"id":763,"date":"2005-09-16T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=763"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"magic-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/09\/magic-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I feel like I can&#8217;t relax and concentrate, like you&#8217;re going to walk through the room, or the cat is going to come bother me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, we need a room for this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re referring to our meditation and journeying practices.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when we thought of the space above the garage. We get to it via an outdoor stairway along the side of the garage.<lj-cut><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/stairs_up_to_space_above_garage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/stairs_up_to_space_above_garage_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Stairs up to magic room\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an unfinished room that we currently have some spare household things in, a couple tents for camping. It is not insulated so it&#8217;s very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter. Although it has a light, there are no electrical outlets up there.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/space_above_garage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/space_above_garage_sm.jpg\" alt=\"magic room\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It has potential. We need a room that&#8217;s detached from our normal house life. Somewhere where we can close the door and shut out the world. While in our Magic Room we are not disturbed. With a little bit of work this could be the perfect place.<\/p>\n<p>As if we weren&#8217;t convinced, Michael reminded me of something I had completely forgotten. When we bought the house, there was a dreamcatcher on the door. I thought we had gotten rid of it, but we didn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s still there:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/dream_catcher_in_space_above_garage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/dream_catcher_in_space_above_garage_sm.jpg\" alt=\"dreamcatcher\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not some sort of sign staring me in the face, I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I feel like I can&#8217;t relax and concentrate, like you&#8217;re going to walk through the room, or the cat is going to come bother me.&#8221; &#8220;Yeah, we need a room for this.&#8221; We&#8217;re referring to our meditation and journeying practices. That&#8217;s when we thought of the space above the garage. We get to it via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}