{"id":219,"date":"2010-05-15T09:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T09:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.103.127\/health\/2010\/05\/15\/let-us-commence-the-journey\/"},"modified":"2010-05-15T09:04:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T09:04:22","slug":"let-us-commence-the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2010\/05\/15\/let-us-commence-the-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Commence the Journey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2010 Pine Ridge Trip<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MerriieHS.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/CHSimages\/MerriieHS.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/class=\"img-left\"> It is Saturday morning, May 15th, and I&#8217;m on Belmont campus amidst the many preparations for Commencement.  The music from the carillon is calling all of us to gather, remember, and to celebrate.  Our Belmont phrase is <em>From Here to Anywhere<\/em> and as the 630 names are being read we will all be having our own images of <em>Anywhere<\/em>.<br \/>\nI will be thinking about Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and the spirit of the Lakota people.  What will we discover and learn about ourselves as 18 of us from the Belmont community commence our journey together tomorrow morning?  Will we have a wider definition of community?  Will we find friends and new directions?<br \/>\nThis quote by Maria Montessori speaks to me and may resonate with those who hear the bells of Belmont:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We abandon all and travel the world, as did those in former times who would sow seeds and go their way.  This is our destiny: to sow! To sow everywhere, without ceasing never to harvest<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2010 Pine Ridge Trip It is Saturday morning, May 15th, and I&#8217;m on Belmont campus amidst the many preparations for Commencement. The music from the carillon is calling all of us to gather, remember, and to celebrate. Our Belmont phrase &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2010\/05\/15\/let-us-commence-the-journey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmacy","category-mission-to-pine-ridge","category-mission-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}