{"id":1842,"date":"2014-03-21T07:17:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T07:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2014-03-21T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T07:19:08","slug":"blue-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/blue-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1832\" alt=\"Blue Sky\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Blue-Sky-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Blue-Sky-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Blue-Sky-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Blue-Sky-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Blue-Sky.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>One of the things I love about the early Spring is the clarity of the light when we do have a clear sky.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a significant chill in the air in the early morning which has created a damp and thick mist. Once the days have started to unfold, and the sun started to penetrate the mist, one can soon realise that a lovely day is in store. On this day I was so captured by the bright blue sky that I took a picture &#8211; the sky was just so blue with exceptional clarity. Perhaps made the more attractive by the grey days of winter that are still a recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>As I looked skywards, I was reminded of the old saying that people offer, when they see you are a little gloomy, &#8216;keep your chin up&#8217;. There is a belief that by looking upwards one cannot feel gloomy &#8211; I am not sure how true this is, and one medic from the past used to request patients to count the number of chimney pots. I read extensively but I cannot remember where this pearl of wisdom comes from!<\/p>\n<p>Whether any current day medic would agree, or say this is old nonsense, I will not be clarifying just yet as I do like the principle.<\/p>\n<p>Looking skyward on this day I did come up with a few thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">When people use the term &#8216;blue sky thinking&#8217; what does it mean for you? And does it make you think &#8216;differently&#8217;?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>When you see a blue sky what do you think about?<\/li>\n<li>What about the impact on your thinking when the sky is a different colour?<\/li>\n<li>Do you feel brighter and happier when you look up, rather than down?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It certainly made me think some very interesting thoughts. I also had a smile as wide as could be, mind you I was happy before, and this lasted all day&#8230;..so perhaps there is something in this looking up stuff. Now I might give the chimney pot counting a miss and suggest you do too, unless you are standing still.<\/p>\n<p>Now that is much more upbeat than &#8216;feeling blue&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>My best wishes,<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Peter<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I love about the early Spring is the clarity of the light when we do have a clear sky.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a significant chill in the air in the early morning which has created a damp and thick mist. Once the days have started to unfold, and the sun started to penetrate the mist, one can soon realise that a lovely day is in store. On this day I was so captured by the bright blue sky that I took a picture &#8211; the sky was just so blue with exceptional clarity. Perhaps made the more attractive by the grey days of winter that are still a recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>As I looked <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/blue-sky\/\">Blue sky<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-reflection","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterjohnsononline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}