{"id":7621,"date":"2017-01-03T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2016-12-29T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T23:26:22","slug":"anything-can-happen-anything-can-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/anything-can-happen-anything-can-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything Can Happen, Anything Can Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen to the mustn\u2019ts child.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the don\u2019ts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the shouldn\u2019ts,<\/span><\/p>\n

the impossibles, the won\u2019ts,<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the never haves,<\/span><\/p>\n

then listen close to me\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, CHILD.<\/span><\/p>\n

ANYTHING CAN BE.<\/span><\/p>\n

-Shel Silverstein<\/p>\n

First I have to say that I LOVE Shel Silverstein\u2019s poetry!\u00a0 He teaches so many incredible lessons through his books and poems. If you haven\u2019t read his book The Giving Tree or the Missing Piece you are truly missing out in life \u2013 get them and read them\u2026so worthwhile!\u00a0 And read them to your kids. I love that he teaches profound life lessons using simple stories \u2013 it\u2019s my favorite way to teach and to be taught.<\/p>\n

When I saw this poem today I knew I had to share it because it fits perfectly with my thoughts and messages from this week.<\/p>\n

As we are all heading into this new time in our lives and this new year I just want all of us to remember that ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN and ANYTHING CAN BE. It truly can! I believe it with all my heart.<\/p>\n

Life is beautiful and amazing and a blessing and a gift. It is meant to help us learn and grow and improve and become the very best we can be. It is also meant to allow us to serve one another and help one another grow and improve and become our best. We all have to be 100% responsible for ourselves and our own choices and actions in life, but we all get to have the benefit of receiving love and support from each other. How awesome is that?!<\/p>\n

As you determine your goals and plans for this new year think big \u2013 let your imagination run wild \u2013 go back to that mindset when you were a little kid and you believed that absolutely anything is possible because it is! Don\u2019t limit yourself or your desires for this year. \u00a0Dream big and know that wishes do come true! \u00a0Anything can happen. Anything can be.<\/p>\n

~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listen to the mustn\u2019ts child. Listen to the don\u2019ts. Listen to the shouldn\u2019ts, the impossibles, the won\u2019ts, Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me\u2026 ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, CHILD. ANYTHING CAN BE. -Shel Silverstein First I have to say that I LOVE Shel Silverstein\u2019s poetry!\u00a0 He teaches so many incredible lessons through his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1299,395,12101,6830,501,500,46,204,12105,60,12109,368,12107,3568,550,410,999,6470,97,12102,219,5582,57,2186,92,178,3821,7,30,220,364,76,244,65,1477,55,180,231,158,391,378,464,754,233,232,11866,7697,35,900,330,692,9719,1039,2296,8493,129,1193,12103,1416,12108,1385,756,345,483,238,1386,12104,374,12106,418,3533,1024],"class_list":["post-7621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-actions","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-anything-can-be","tag-anything-can-happen","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-awesome","tag-be-taught","tag-beautiful","tag-become-our-best","tag-believe","tag-believe-it-with-all-your-heart","tag-benefit","tag-blessed","tag-blessing","tag-child","tag-childlike","tag-decisions","tag-dont-limit-yourself","tag-dream","tag-dream-big","tag-easy","tag-embrace","tag-excitement","tag-faith","tag-favorite","tag-future","tag-gift","tag-go-for-it","tag-goal","tag-goals","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude","tag-grow","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-hope","tag-imagination","tag-imagine","tag-improve","tag-joy","tag-kid","tag-learn","tag-lessons","tag-life-choices","tag-life-is-beautiful","tag-love","tag-mindset","tag-new-year","tag-opportunity","tag-peom","tag-plans","tag-poetry","tag-profound","tag-responsibility","tag-responsible","tag-run-wild","tag-serve","tag-serve-one-another","tag-shel-silverstein","tag-simple","tag-support","tag-teach","tag-thankful","tag-the-giving-tree","tag-the-missing-piece","tag-think-big","tag-understandable","tag-wish","tag-worthwhile","tag-yolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7623,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions\/7623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}