{"id":2597,"date":"2023-10-31T03:09:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T03:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2023-10-31T03:09:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T03:09:39","slug":"evensong-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2597","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 42"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231030_230808-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231030_230808-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231030_230808-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231030_230808-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231030_230808-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231030_230808-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231030_230808-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the doe that saunters from the woods to feed at our crabapple tree, I hunger to know what lies before me. Will my last season on this earth begin with feasting but end in famine? Will the wholly universal spirit take a notion to greet me as if I were a tiny raindrop falling into the ocean?<br><br>I used to go to church, where I sat in the congregation, sang the hymns, shouted my praise and \u201cthank-you\u2019s,\u201d and every once in a while took some bread in hand and then washed it down with a song and a prayer. But this communion was by rote, as the crusty host never showed his face.<br><br>I decided to seek the iSoul in the verdant river valley, on the highest windswept peak, and in the piedmont where one can easily see both hill and dell. I look and listen for the kindred spirit in the mountain waterfall and in the ocean waves that rise, curl and break on the sand at my bare feet.<br><br>In the light of day, I celebrate the beauty of the universe with my fading eyesight and cloth-eared hearing. In the darkness of my chamber at night, I reimagine all that I have ever seen and heard under the sun; I consider my deer friend, the doe; and I dream of another day I may never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the doe that saunters from the woods to feed at our crabapple tree, I hunger to know what lies before me. Will my last season on this earth begin with feasting but end in famine? Will the wholly universal spirit take a notion to greet me as if I were a tiny raindrop falling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 42<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}