\u201cTo live in this world<\/strong><\/p>\n you must be able<\/strong> against your bones knowing<\/strong> Father\u2019s Day was hot and humid. Our celebration was laid back and we mostly hung out in the air-conditioned house. But on one visit to the backyard, my son discovered this tiny wonder <\/strong>in the grass. Smaller than a dime, it may be a cricket frog or cricket toad. It seemed so remarkable and precious and wonderful.<\/p>\n Peace, love, and solace<\/strong><\/p>\n Summer is almost officially here\u2014I\u2019m wishing you sunny days in all ways. This past weekend I went to a memorial service on Saturday and on Sunday, we celebrated Father\u2019s Day. At the memorial service, we heard the Mary Oliver poem \u201cIn Blackwater Woods.\u201d It is from her book American Primitive (1983, Back Bay Books) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3512,3510,3504,3513,12,1638,3507,3505,3503,39,3511,13,3515,7,16,3506,3514,3508,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-10160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-american-primitive","8":"tag-back-bay-books","9":"tag-cricket-frog","10":"tag-cricket-toad","11":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","12":"tag-fathers-day","13":"tag-frogs","14":"tag-in-blackwater-woods","15":"tag-mary-oliver","16":"tag-photography","17":"tag-poem-for-memorial-service","18":"tag-poetry","19":"tag-precious","20":"tag-solace","21":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","22":"tag-summer-begins","23":"tag-tiny-amphibian","24":"tag-tiny-frog","25":"tag-weighed-words","26":"entry","27":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10169,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160\/revisions\/10169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto do three things:<\/strong>
\nto love what is mortal;<\/strong>
\nto hold it<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nyour own life depends on it;<\/strong>
\nand, when the time comes to let it go,<\/strong>
\nto let it go.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Father\u2019s-Day-discovery-\u00a9-Ellen-Wade-Beals-2018.jpg\")
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