per\u00b7spec\u00b7tive<\/span>\u00a0<\/a> noun<\/em><\/p>\n Etymology: Middle English perspectyf,<\/em> from Medieval Latin perspectivum,<\/em> from neuter of perspectivus<\/em> of sight, optical, from Latin perspectus,<\/em> past participle of perspicere<\/em> to look through, see clearly, from per-<\/em> through + specere<\/em> to look \u2014 more at<\/p>\n From Wikipedia<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0(which is not necessarily\u00a0accurate as the entries\u00a0can be submitted by anyone..)\u00a0<\/p>\n Perspective<\/strong> may mean:<\/p>\n Literally, in visual topics:<\/p>\n Metaphorically, in relation to cognitive topics:<\/p>\n Onward, then…\u00a0“perspective” – “to look more at” and “the way in which objects appear to the eye” – that’s behind today’s thoughts.\u00a0 But today, by accident of timing, I turned at a moment when this ordinary tree was cast in extraordinary beauty – at least to my eye.<\/p>\n Years ago, during a difficult time for me, I was seeing a counselor and had related some incident that was upsetting to me.\u00a0 His comment when I finished my rant was simply: “You could look at it that way or you could look at it this way” and he told the incident from a “different” [new to me] perspective.\u00a0\u00a0Either one could have been the “truth” or even some other scenario…<\/p>\n A valuable lesson – actually more than one:\u00a0 Most of us are not mind readers and it is so easy to look at things, events or people from a point of view unique to our own experience but not necessairily accurate.<\/p>\n Sometimes, we need to turn around, take a step forward, backward, to the side, cock our head – look more at<\/em> – the world and the people we care about.\u00a0<\/p>\n A slight change in perspective can change the ordinary into the extraordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wrote the title above having an idea of what I intended to write about and then started wondering if I had the word right?\u00a0 Or, if there were varied meanings so did I need to make clear which I was thinking about… From Merriam-Webster (online) per\u00b7spec\u00b7tive\u00a0 noun Etymology: Middle English perspectyf, from Medieval Latin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22205,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/22205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\u00a0 Walking yesterday, I turned to check on Karl and saw this tree – backlit by the late afternoon sun.\u00a0 I walk past this tree once or twice a day – I’m usually looking out at the mountains which are beautiful and majestic in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n