{"id":2761,"date":"2026-09-15T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:22:31","slug":"glim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"Glim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Another night with little sleep<br>I seek refuge in the ritual<br>Lean into the light, any light<br>even if I have to create it for myself.<br><br>Pour myself a bowl of silly cereal<br>Add an extra swig of whole;<br>give the crispy cookies room to swirl;<br>run a verdant wood matchstick across striker.<br><br>I stare, without seeing, <br>twin flames wiggling unbothered <br>on the charcoal wicks, vertical and defiant.<br>A contrast to the stubby pairs of beeswax tapers<br>those that long served this table throughout August<br>and are now unafraid of the end that awaits them<br>soon, so soon. <br><br>\"Glim\"<br>I say aloud,<br>listening as one syllable <br>echoes through the dining room.<br>A wee light, a short candle, <br>a lesser-used but apt descriptor.<br><br>My focus drifts near and far. <br>I slurp my saccharine slurry.<br>Breathing slowly I speak into being<br>my impromptu incantation:<br><br>\"May whimsy percolate through my Tuesday<br>May goodness prevail<br>May energy find me in gentle bursts<br>and may the light keep coming.\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGlim,\u201d a short musing of making magic in the mundane, findign whimsy in a poorly-slept night, and finding the light, always. Written Tuesday, September 15, 2026 poem 258 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: &#8220;Candlight and Cookie Crunch,&#8221;  by Diana Ludwick \u00a9 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2126,2130,2,776],"tags":[2904,2897,2899,2898,2905,2901,2896,2620,2907,2903,2906,2621,1359,1155,2902,2900],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-culinary","category-eating-and-drinking","category-poems","category-short-form-musings","tag-beeswax","tag-candlit","tag-cold-cereal","tag-cookie-crisp","tag-defiant","tag-dining-room","tag-glim","tag-late-summer","tag-percolate","tag-ritual","tag-saccharine","tag-september","tag-sleepless","tag-tuesday","tag-unbothered","tag-whimsy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}