{"id":1782,"date":"2022-09-26T06:14:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2022-09-26T06:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:14:52","slug":"a-national-daughters-day-post-of-sorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"A National Daughter\u2019s Day post of sorts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I learned that this holiday started in India.\u00a0 Here is a photo Maya in India in April 2014 surrounded by a sea of girls.\u00a0 It was taken at the Binapani Ashram (residential girls school).\u00a0 It was at that time that Maya\u2019s vision was sparked to return to India to work with girls.\u00a0 \u00a0After reading and learning about sexual trafficking, Maya\u2019s focus moved to Nepal.\u00a0 She set a goal to go to Nepal, to reduce sexual trafficking.

I caught myself today explaining that we are in Nepal (yes, I\u2019m writing from Nepal, now), because she never \u201chad the opportunity\u201d to go herself.\u00a0 I corrected myself.\u00a0 Maya did have the opportunity.\u00a0 She lost it.\u00a0 We go to Nepal each year, with a group of teens in her memory.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time is different.  It is the first that Mathew and I are here together without a group.  It is a time to give to ourselves.   We are going for a trek in the Himalayas.  We will likely be at the highest point of our trek (coincidently?) on the anniversary of Maya\u2019s passing, October 2nd.  It is also during the time of the High Holidays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is something different this year.  I cannot put my finger on it, but I feel a change.  Seven years have passed.  Seven years.  How can that be?  That is practically half of Maya\u2019s life when she left us at 15 years old.  There has also been much said about the Seven Year Cycle, and cells in our body changing over seven years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I continue to allow myself to feel all of my feelings with fullness and curiousity.\u00a0 How is it that my daughter is not here, but my relationship with her continues to change?\u00a0 Some of these questions may remain unanswered; I will always be asking questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for reading, sending you love and warm wishes for a sweet and healthy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I learned that this holiday started in India.\u00a0 Here is a photo Maya in India in April 2014 surrounded by a sea of girls.\u00a0 It was taken at the Binapani Ashram (residential girls school).\u00a0 It was at that time that Maya\u2019s vision was sparked to return to India to work with girls.\u00a0 \u00a0After reading and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p720L0-sK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayasgifts.elisegold.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}