{"id":13698,"date":"2018-09-24T03:37:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T07:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/?p=13698"},"modified":"2018-09-24T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:04:03","slug":"summer-2018-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/2018\/09\/24\/summer-2018-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeze Frame : My Summer 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I heard it in the many quiet moments I spent reading out by the boats this summer and through the buzz outside a bar on warm evenings. It echoed through the walls of its neighborhoods and through the chatter of friends old and new. I hear it even now as music plays through my headphones, as I watch the city move and play like a silent film.”<\/em>\"My<\/p>\n

\"Warm \"Summer \"Summer \"Summer \"Summer \"Summer \"\" \"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

Fells Point, July 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

A woman stops to take a picture of the sunset. Another, to embrace a friend. One man is yelling at another man, and I am not sure why.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnything else?\u201d the waiter asks.<\/p>\n

I take out my headphones and let the sounds in. \u201cNothing for now,\u201d I smile.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m staring at the city I started a love affair with a year ago. Holding it with the embrace of a sad goodbye. As I sit to watch the warm summer sun set over Baltimore, I remember the moment that has brought us closer together…<\/p>\n

…I\u2019m not sure where I would be next summer, but, a few weeks ago, I asked myself what I would do differently if this summer was my last in the city…<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s how it started.\u2014 I spent the rest of my summer exploring the city every chance I got. I may not have been certain about much, but summer, I was sure would not last forever, so I did everything to enjoy every bit of it\u2014dancing by the docks, warm evenings sitting out on the terrace of a restaurant, the\u00a0<\/span>fros\u00e9!<\/em>, the laughter, the new friends, the old ones. I took none of it for granted. & Baltimore, with which I had started a summer fling, never looked so beautiful.<\/p>\n

Reminding myself that these moments would not last forever changed everything. My summer felt like a film(it\u2019s why I edited the images to look like an old film)\u2014every special moment froze a frame longer while I met it with deep appreciation. I allowed the moments to be what they were without judgment. And I learned so much about myself, about life, and about this city when I allowed it all to just be without trying to escape it the present.<\/p>\n

I allowed the city to tell me its story and I listened quietly for it. I heard it in the many quiet moments I spent reading out by the boats this summer and through the buzz outside a bar on warm evenings. It echoed through the walls of its neighborhoods and through the\u00a0chatter of friends old and new. I hear it even now as music plays through my headphones as I watch the city move and play like a silent film.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s the check whenever you\u2019re ready,\u201d the waiter returns<\/p>\n

Thank you!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m beyond grateful! As I welcome a new season, I couldn’t be more thankful to God for blessing me with a truly wonderful summer. I\u2019d be lying if I said this summer was a perfect breeze with no worry in sight because it wasn\u2019t. What I am sharing with you is what I did to overcome that. How gratitude and appreciation for the small things made a big difference.\u00a0There\u2019s probably no better way to look at the good and the bad in life other than recognizing that it too shall pass.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where this love story began.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes I can\u2019t help but wonder, was it the city I fell in love with, was it life or was it myself. Truthfully, I believe it was all three.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dancing at the edge of docks, warm evenings sitting out on the terrace of a restaurant. I’m sharing the tales of my summer fling as I say a sweet goodbye to summer 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,102,8],"tags":[609,190,264,1343,1333],"class_list":["post-13698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-love-armenyl","category-travel","tag-baltimore","tag-love","tag-seasons","tag-self-discovery","tag-summer-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13727,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions\/13727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armenyl.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}