{"id":327,"date":"2011-07-20T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kimberleybarker.net\/2011\/07\/pruning-and-growing\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T01:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T01:38:00","slug":"pruning-and-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberleybarker.net\/2011\/07\/pruning-and-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning and Growing&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outside on a beautiful summer evening pruning my umbrella tree.&nbsp; I have no idea what its called in botantical terms.. but to me..its an umbrella tree! lol!&nbsp; Its cooler in the night time, not so hot, so I can tolerate being outside for longer periods of time. <\/p>\n<p>Once, the weather turns warmer, this little umbrella tree turns from merely sticks to a big round mound of large green leaves. It grows like someone gave it Popeyes spinach!&nbsp; As I was trimming it back tonight, I was thinking about how our lives are sometimes like this little tree. <\/p>\n<p>We have times of immense growth, followed perhaps by a much needed cutting back.&nbsp; I myself have gone through a tremendous personal development\/growth stage over the last two years and now I find myself in that season of pulling back. Perhaps the focus now needs to be to allow all that learning to manifest itself into what it wants to become.<\/p>\n<p>I actually find myself welcoming this season as my brain needs a break and I feel I need to connect back with nature to quiet and nuture my soul.<\/p>\n<p>Life will take care of itself, somehow, someway.&nbsp; It is not for me to know the how, but for me to trust. <\/p>\n<p>It is my hope, if any of you are reading this out there in the big world we live in, that you enjoy both of these seasons which ever one you might be in.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kimberley<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside on a beautiful summer evening pruning my umbrella tree.&nbsp; I have no idea what its called in botantical terms.. but to me..its an umbrella tree! lol!&nbsp; Its cooler in the night time, not so hot, so I can tolerate being outside for longer periods of time. 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