{"id":1155,"date":"2012-03-02T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2012-03-02T17:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:45:36","slug":"letang-de-vie-par-simon-parke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"‘L’\u00e9tang de vie’ par Simon Parke"},"content":{"rendered":"

L’etang avait \u00e9te autrefois un endroit d’une grande beaut\u00e9 o\u00f9 les canards glissaient sur l’eau et o\u00f9 les gens aimaient se rassembler. Qui n’aurait pas aim\u00e9 y passer une heure ou deux\u00a0quand le\u00a0soleil\u00a0brille? C’\u00e9tait un endroit si attrayant que, rapidement, des petits caf\u00e9s et une entreprise de location de canots sont apparus. On pouvait y trouver des machines distributrices pour s’acheter des boissons et des sucreries.
\nConstatant cela, les autorit\u00e9s locales ont alors enfil\u00e9 leur costume de planificateurs. Pour prot\u00e9ger l’endroit, ils ont d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de constuire un sanctuaire pour les canards et d’entourer l’\u00e9tang d’un rebord en ciment. Plus astucieux encore, ils ont d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de boucher les endroits par o\u00f9 l’eau entrait et sortait de l’\u00e9tang afin de pr\u00e9venir les fuites. Qui sait ce qui aurait pu se produire si on avait laiss\u00e9 la nature suivre son cours !
\nPersonne ne conna\u00eet le moment exact o\u00f9 ce magnifique \u00e9tang s’est transform\u00e9 en mare stagnante remplie de l’essence et d\u00e9chets ou \u00e0 quel moments les canards trop bien nourris ont laiss\u00e9 les miettes de pain aux rats.
\nNul doute que votre beaut\u00e9 a aussi \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9truite en grande partie avec la meilleure des intentions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tir\u00e9 de ‘M\u00e9ditation Minute’ de Simon Parke (http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\/<\/a>). Disponible d’amazon.co.uk (http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Pond Life<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 by Simon Parke<\/p>\n

The pond had once been a place of great beauty, a place where ducks swam, water flowed and people naturally gathered. Who wouldn’t want to spend an hour or two there when the sun was out? Indeed, it was such an attractive spot that soon tea shops and a boat-hire business appeared, with vending machines for drinks and sweets.
\nSeeing the beauty, the local council put on their planning hats. In order to preserve things, they decided to build a duck sanctuary, using concrete ledges, oh, and they cleverly closed the water channels in and out of the pond to stop any loss of water – you never quite knew what would happen if you left nature to itself!
\nNo one can be quite sure of the exact moment when the beautiful pond became a stagnant pool of oil and litter or when the overfed ducks left their bread for the scrambling rats.
\nNo doubt much of your beauty, too, was destroyed with the best of intentions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Taken from ‘One-Minute Mystic’ by Simon Parke (http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\/<\/a>). Available from amazon.co.uk (http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L’etang avait \u00e9te autrefois un endroit d’une grande beaut\u00e9 o\u00f9 les canards glissaient sur l’eau et o\u00f9 les gens aimaient se rassembler. Qui n’aurait pas aim\u00e9 y passer une heure ou deux\u00a0quand le\u00a0soleil\u00a0brille? C’\u00e9tait un endroit si attrayant que, rapidement, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[89,32],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-iD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}