{"id":1812,"date":"2025-10-31T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:44:16","slug":"i-have-a-stellar-little-story-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/2025\/10\/31\/i-have-a-stellar-little-story-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a stellar little story for you."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1531\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646.png 646w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646-480x297.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251029-WA0000_resized_bw.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1813\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251029-WA0000_resized_bw.jpg 550w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251029-WA0000_resized_bw-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251029-WA0000_resized_bw-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><p style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em>I was heading to work in the rain<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p><p>&#8230;feeling deflated by life\u2019s routine.<\/p><p>Arriving at my stop, thoughts buzzing around my head taking up too much promise, I took a few steps and then\u2026<\/p><p>A star crossed my path.<\/p><p>Well, it was really a bright red, star-shaped balloon that had tumbled to earth because of\u2026 the rain? The wind?<\/p><p>Once upon a time it was buoyant. But the clouds set in and it fell from grace. Hit the ground. And now commuters rushed by, ignoring the stellar miracle in their midst. I could\u2019ve followed suit. But when the world\u2019s chaos threatens to squeeze every ounce of joy out of life, the dreamers, <em>the balloon catchers,<\/em> must dream, must catch, harder.<\/p><p>And so, I did.<\/p><p>While umbrella-toting folks pushed past me on their way to nowhere, I scooped up the balloon and took it to work with me. I imagined <em>Stellar <\/em>would spend the day on my desk, drying off. But when I wiped the raindrops and grit from her shiny face, she started to float <em>up.<\/em> Free. No longer weighed down by the rain or grime.<\/p><p><em>Stellar <\/em>spent the day high (and dry) and tethered to a green ribbon stuck to my desk. She travelled home with me on another crowded tram. And for the last couple of days she\u2019s bobbed about in my bedroom \u2013 a quiet, bright reminder that on a gloomy Wednesday in October, life\u2019s random magic showed up for me in the shape of a shiny star. &nbsp;\u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"508\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1535\" style=\"width:100px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature.jpeg 508w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature-300x266.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature-480x425.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/figure><p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>\u00a9 Phyllis Foundis 2025<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was heading to work in the rain&#8230; &#8230;feeling deflated by life\u2019s routine. Arriving at my stop, thoughts buzzing around my head taking up too much promise, I took a few steps and then\u2026 A star crossed my path. Well, it was really a bright red, star-shaped balloon that had tumbled to earth because of\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}