{"id":5264,"date":"2024-01-28T22:14:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/?p=5264"},"modified":"2024-02-06T00:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:00:31","slug":"be-kind-when-you-enter-hayfields-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/2024\/01\/28\/be-kind-when-you-enter-hayfields-market\/","title":{"rendered":"“Be Kind” when you enter Hayfields Market"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Be Kind” when you enter Hayfields Market\u00a0<\/a>\u00a9 2018\u00a0by\u00a0Georgios Argyratos\u00a0<\/a>is licensed under\u00a0Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what you see when you enter my favorite coffee place in NY. The picture was taken while I was looking at the register and my focus directly went to the \u201cbe kind\u201d sign. It is positioned correctly based on the rule of thirds, and it is also a nice word with a meaning and a purpose. Unconsciously, the surroundings become less important and you feel good just looking at it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In hindsight, my practice (Alexander technique<\/a>) kicked in and while I started softening my eyes, allowing them to rest in my eye sockets, I noticed that my breathing started changing, my ribs and vision expanded, I felt more supported by the ground and I could now see the whole picture, like a soup with many ingredients and one flavorful taste. Now I was able to look “through” and receive information from the whole- then a smile came as I realized that there was a hidden, honest, and definitely rewarding (for horses) message hidden in plain sight. Focusing at the basket on the counter\u2026 a. crunchy. free. carrot! Yup. I thought “this is amusing and it\u2019s happening at my favorite coffee shop Hayfields<\/a> in a small town in NY, where you can park your horse, grab your flowers and an ice latte, snatch a carrot and chat with locals about walk, trot, center and gallop”.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Free for Horses” at Hayfields <\/a>by Georgios Argyratos is licensed by CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point of this post, except from the assignment, is also that a shift in perception leads to a delightful discovery \u2014 the basket of free carrots for horses is a wonderful reflection of how a change in focus and mindfulness can transform an ordinary moment into a richer, surprising, more fulfilling experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS. To make sure that I can use my pictures of a public place, I did some research and found that “According to the law, in public places, you have the right to take photographs of anything that\u2019s in plain view.<\/strong>” <\/a> with the restriction that photos taken in a public space are permissible for non-commercial<\/strong> purposes. This is why I chose the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    “Be Kind” when you enter Hayfields Market\u00a0\u00a9 2018\u00a0by\u00a0Georgios Argyratos\u00a0is licensed under\u00a0Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International\u00a0 This is what you see when you enter my favorite coffee place in NY. The picture was taken while I was looking at the register and my...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,2],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-5264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2024","category-student","tag-composition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5264"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5903,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions\/5903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}