1.0Amber Bird | Bloghttps://www.amberbird.com/blogamberhttps://www.amberbird.com/blog/author/admin/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="9Ui4s8B1n8"><a href="https://www.amberbird.com/blog/2015/10/25/not-ashamed-serious/">Not Ashamed: Serious</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.amberbird.com/blog/2015/10/25/not-ashamed-serious/embed/#?secret=9Ui4s8B1n8" width="600" height="338" title="“Not Ashamed: Serious” — Amber Bird | Blog" data-secret="9Ui4s8B1n8" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.amberbird.com/blog/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> If you haven’t already, please read the introduction post. That will give you context for this page. I guess I could have rolled this in with the intensity thing, but I don’t think that being intense and being serious are necessarily the same things. Intensity is, if you will, things turned up to maximum, or at least turned up higher than most people consider typical. But serious…You know, I have a pretty robust sense of humour. And a silly streak for which I’ve been shamed. But not everything is funny and some things shouldn’t be taken lightly. Or there’s a right time and place to take them lightly. I feel the weight of causality. The choices I make set off a string of events, and they build the future I have to live. I feel the weight of sacred things and of tender things. Someone once told me that, “if you want something to last forever, you treat it differently.” And there are things I want to hold above the lightness of daily talk or the scuffing of even my own careless shoes. There are pieces of me that I couldn’t see trusting to someone who couldn’t take them as […]http://www.amberbird.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/serious.png