{"id":1642,"date":"2021-02-22T16:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2023-12-02T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T17:04:15","slug":"sentiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/?p=1642","title":{"rendered":"Sentiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2252-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2252-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1645\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2252-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2252-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2252-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2252-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2252-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2250-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2250-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1646\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2250-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2250-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2250-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2250-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_2250-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What a lovely surprise it was to find this reader&#8217;s tender heart expressed in the opening pages of <em>Bella Grace, Winter 2021<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This feels like a &#8216;longtime listener, first-time caller&#8217; moment. I&#8217;m currently reading your Autumn 2020 issue and it feels like how I envision Fall should be. Donna K. Wallace writes about more than simple pumpkin spice thrown around like salt, and I need this. &#8230;I have learned more than a few things and the number one thing is how often I put my own life on hold. My cares, my beliefs, the things that make me who I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I buy <em>Bella Grace<\/em> for the call that the writers and artists share inside: the call to exist as I am and not how I make myself to be to fit in. It doesn&#8217;t shake me to my core to read this; it gently waves from the shore to come sit and have a cup of tea and maybe release the tears I&#8217;ve been holding in, or breath in air that isn&#8217;t from an air conditioner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for calling out to me, though you don&#8217;t know me. Thank you for being more than pumpkin spice, but not throwing the spice out either. They say there&#8217;s a whole world that calls out to you, and in this time where the world is basically closed for maintenance, I have found this feeling like it was ending for me to see how much I, first and foremost, need me&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Amy Allen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a lovely surprise it was to find this reader&#8217;s tender heart expressed in the opening pages of Bella Grace, Winter 2021: &#8220;This feels like a &#8216;longtime listener, first-time caller&#8217; moment. I&#8217;m currently reading your Autumn 2020 issue and it feels like how I envision Fall should be. Donna K. Wallace writes about more than simple pumpkin spice thrown around like salt, and I need this. &#8230;I have learned more than a few things and the number one thing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}