{"id":2966,"date":"2013-01-04T22:43:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T03:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/01\/live-your-life\/"},"modified":"2013-01-04T22:43:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T03:43:40","slug":"live-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/01\/live-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving back to the studio some months back, shortly after children&#39;s book author Maurice Sendak died, I heard a past interview he did with Terri Gross on her radio program &quot;Fresh Air.&quot;&#0160; It was a very touching exchange &#8211; one of those radio moments when you realize you could have missed your exit &#8211; and so when I found an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/2012\/12\/28\/magazine\/100000001970456\/an-illustrated-talk-with-maurice-sendak.html\" target=\"_self\">illustrated version<\/a> of it (thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss-miss.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Swiss Miss<\/a>) I thought I&#39;d share the link and transcribe some of the dialogue:<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#39;m beginning to see nature \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#39;s something I&#39;m finding out as I&#39;m aging &#8212; that I am in love with the world, and I look right now as we speak together out my window, in my studio\u2026 and I see my trees, my beautiful, beautiful maples are hundreds of years old&#0160; &#8212; they&#39;re beautiful, and you say, &quot; I can see how beautiful they are &#8212; I can take time to see how beautiful they are.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is a blessing to get old.&#0160; It is a blessing to find the time to do the things:&#0160; to read the books, to listen to the music\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Live your life,<\/em><br \/><em>Live your life,<\/em><br \/><em>Live your life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017ee6f58d78970d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"150\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b017ee6f58d78970d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b017ee6f58d78970d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving back to the studio some months back, shortly after children&#39;s book author Maurice Sendak died, I heard a past interview he did with Terri Gross on her radio program &quot;Fresh Air.&quot;&#0160; It was a very touching exchange &#8211; one of those radio moments when you realize you could have missed your exit &#8211; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}