{"id":842,"date":"2015-05-25T08:18:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T12:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2015-05-25T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T16:37:10","slug":"life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/life\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Life Better for Others"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Robin<\/a>Okay. This is the situation: My friend Nicole<\/a> is in Nepal helping to build shelters<\/a> for earthquake victims. In her blog<\/a>, she wrote about a platter of flowers, \u201cred tika that the elder blessed and smudged on our foreheads.\u201d For much of the past week I carried in my head an image of Nicole amid the ruins with tika. I spent so much time trying to make it visible through Photo-shopping that I\u2019m running late. If I sit here writing, I won\u2019t be able to visit two other friends<\/a> in two different nursing homes today. I won\u2019t be able to finish the photo project I\u2019m working on for a bereaved mother I met online.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m leaving you to fill in the blanks, connect the thoughts. Young Nicole following her heart and reaching out to strangers across the world whose lives have been devastated, the villages in Lalit Pur where they lost 95% of their infrastructure yet still found red flowers to give that symbolize gratitude and long life, and my own small efforts to make life better for others.<\/p>\n

All I wanted to say is, we need to take care of each other. We give what we can. And if you\u2019re feeling lonely or directionless, or you think your life is in ruins, go help someone else. It may make you feel like you\u2019ve been blessed with red flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay. This is the situation: My friend Nicole is in Nepal helping to build shelters for earthquake victims. In her blog, she wrote about a platter of flowers, “red tika that the elder blessed and smudged on our foreheads.” For much of the past week I carried in my head an image of Nicole amid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[510,506,507,509,511,508],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-go-help-someone-else","tag-helping-strangers","tag-make-life-better-for-others","tag-nepal-earthquake","tag-photo-shopping","tag-tika-flower"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}