{"id":4154,"date":"2012-09-12T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:55:49","slug":"they-also-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4154","title":{"rendered":"They also serve…"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite quotations is – “They also serve who only stand and wait.” It’s from a poem by John Milton entitled “On His Blindness.”  There are so many times when I have had to wait – in line, on the phone, on the computer…. or I see people waiting and I can’t help thinking of these words. <\/p>\n

Occasionally, I have said them to someone, who is obviously waiting, hoping to find a kindred soul. One, who would answer – John Milton – “On His Blindness.”<\/p>\n

I remember once, on a mid-morning break at work, waiting to get to one of those steaming urns of coffee, when the CEO said. “They also serve who only stand and wait.”  Well, I answered, “John Milton, On His Blindness.”  It met with a blank stare.  I guess he knew the line; but didn’t know the origin.<\/p>\n

Alas, I often feel like a voice crying in the wilderness. Or perhaps, I walk to the beat of a different drummer.  I know that I have taken the road less travelled and yes that should mean a degree of isolation, but really, I am not an alien.<\/p>\n

Then again, maybe I am. To think that I could communicate with a large number of people today when I stopped watching TV years ago and my favourite music genre is Irish Folk and I am just now reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – which may be followed by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy or Bob, Son of Battle – a book I inherited from my mother.<\/p>\n

Yes, Virginia, there is life on the fringe – it just tends to dangle a little, maybe knots or mats, is definitely stranded and waits for blind chance to be of service!!<\/p>\n

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\nI may have found my soul mate. Someone who sculpts balloon creatures out of stone and I thought that I was different.<\/p>\n

Celebrate what sets you apart, today!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite quotations is – “They also serve who only stand and wait.” It’s from a poem by John Milton entitled “On His Blindness.”  There are so many times when I have had to wait – in line, on the phone, on the computer…. or I see people waiting and I can’t help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}