<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>Ahhhhh….the sun. The outdoors. I’ve had the fortune of spending time outside absorbing some much-needed Vitamin D(elight) and enjoying the feeling of well-being that it imparts. In addition to sitting outside soaking up the Vitamin D(elight), I now see a flock of seagulls. Not the ’80s band who immortalized the lyrics, “And I ran. I ran so far away. I just ran. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>“The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds — how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives — and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!”<\/p>\n John Burroughs (1837 – 1921), Birds and Poets, 1887<\/p>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ahhhhh….the sun. The outdoors. I’ve had the fortune of spending time outside absorbing some much-needed Vitamin D(elight) and enjoying the feeling of well-being that it imparts. In addition to sitting outside soaking up the Vitamin D(elight), I now see a flock of seagulls. Not the ’80s band who immortalized the lyrics, “And I ran. I … Continue reading Vitamin D(elight)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pfspirit","author_link":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/author\/pfspirit\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Ahhhhh….the sun. The outdoors. I’ve had the fortune of spending time outside absorbing some much-needed Vitamin D(elight) and enjoying the feeling of well-being that it imparts. In addition to sitting outside soaking up the Vitamin D(elight), I now see a flock of seagulls. Not the ’80s band who immortalized the lyrics, “And I ran. I…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petitefreespirit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I ran all night and day. I couldn’t get away.” but a literal flock of seagulls circling and gliding on the wind and doing what seagulls do. <\/p>\n