{"id":1240,"date":"2015-01-22T22:24:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T02:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2015-01-24T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:11:09","slug":"form-over-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"COEXIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365- Day 22<\/p>\n<p>Many of us have seen the bumper sticker &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=coexist&amp;tbm=isch&amp;imgil=CM95bZ17oBVNzM%253A%253BEI74DFH7_r5GxM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.splendoroftruth.com%25252Fcurtjester%25252F2012%25252F10%25252Fcoexisting-with-people-who-have-coexist-bumper-stickers%25252F&amp;source=iu&amp;pf=m&amp;fir=CM95bZ17oBVNzM%253A%252CEI74DFH7_r5GxM%252C_&amp;usg=__qUO0gXR7Ss_272wKiQ2mPxB2gLc%3D&amp;biw=2388&amp;bih=1320&amp;dpr=0.8&amp;ved=0CDQQyjc&amp;ei=TKzBVKmYNumwsASlk4HgDA#imgdii=_&amp;imgrc=CM95bZ17oBVNzM%253A%3BEI74DFH7_r5GxM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.splendoroftruth.com%252Fcurtjester%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F10%252Fcoexist.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.splendoroftruth.com%252Fcurtjester%252F2012%252F10%252Fcoexisting-with-people-who-have-coexist-bumper-stickers%252F%3B602%3B250\">COEXIST<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 I saw one today, and for the first time I looked closely at the letters and observed each symbol representing many facets of society and culture.\u00a0 From their website:\u00a0 &#8220;<em>Coexist was created to address the crisis of understanding that tears at the social fabric of societies around the world. Globalization has outpaced our understanding of one another, creating divisions that plague communities with prejudice, hate and violence.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later today, I hiked on one of my favorite neighborhood trails.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always been intrigued by these power line structures which transect the trail and wooded areas of our local park.\u00a0 Revisiting them on my walk triggered a reminder of the term &#8220;coexist&#8221; again.\u00a0 This time, I thought about how our man made structures and inventions coexist with nature.\u00a0 The term means &#8220;<em><span class=\"oneClick-link\">to<\/span> exist <span class=\"oneClick-link\">separately<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">or<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">independently<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">but<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">peaceably,&#8221; <\/span><\/em><span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">whi<\/span><span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">ch characterizes my thoughts perfectly<\/span>.\u00a0 Man-made against a background of nature-made, existing peaceably.\u00a0 There&#8217;s room for both, though we often hear polarizing debates to the contrary.\u00a0 After all, each are ultimately the result of God&#8217;s gift and handiwork.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1247\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1247\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1247 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150122_0041-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Powerful\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150122_0041-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150122_0041-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150122_0041.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Powerful<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fuji X100s, 23mm f\/2.0, 1\/170 sec, f\/5.6, ISO800<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365- Day 22 Many of us have seen the bumper sticker &#8220;COEXIST&#8220;.\u00a0 I saw one today, and for the first time I looked closely at the letters and observed each symbol representing many facets of society and culture.\u00a0 From their website:\u00a0 &#8220;Coexist was created to address the crisis of understanding that tears at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,5,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}