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“I thought the earth remembered me,<\/div>\n

she took me back so tenderly,<\/div>\n

arranging her dark skirts, her pockets<\/div>\n

full of lichens and seeds.<\/div>\n

I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,<\/div>\n

nothing between me and the white fire of the stars<\/div>\n

but my thoughts and they floated light as moths<\/div>\n

among the branches of the perfect trees.<\/div>\n

All night I heard the small kingdoms<\/div>\n

breathing around me, the insects,<\/div>\n

and the birds who do their work in the darkness.<\/div>\n

All night I rose and fell, as if in water,<\/div>\n

grappling with a luminous doom. By morning<\/div>\n

I had vanished at least a dozen times\u2019<\/div>\n

into something better.\u201d<\/div>\n

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-Mary Oliver<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I cannot get enough of Mary Oliver right now… her words are buoying me, reminding me of the earth’s deep sustenance and peace. The earth does remember me and my heart is full of gratitude.\u00a0 I am deeply embedded in her peaceful embrace today with the rain sweetly softening and nourishing… Softening and nourishing and … Continue reading The Earth Remembered Me<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492,1274,1273,1268,1269,2],"tags":[171,1578,56,38,1109,1579,1577,1592],"class_list":["post-9861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall","category-home","category-inspiring-words","category-nature","category-photography","category-sweet-breathing","tag-earth","tag-lichens","tag-mary-oliver","tag-quote","tag-remembering","tag-seeds","tag-small-kingdoms","tag-something-better"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Forest-Detail.jpg?fit=3008%2C2000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9892,"href":"https:\/\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions\/9892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetbreathing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}