{"id":724,"date":"2023-09-24T20:55:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/?p=724"},"modified":"2023-09-24T20:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:55:46","slug":"silence-foxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/09\/24\/silence-foxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence &#038; foxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"604\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wickedlola_a_bright_ginger_fox_in_the_cemetery_9ff4e09d-e4b4-44f8-91ba-ef92e873df09.png?resize=604%2C604&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wickedlola_a_bright_ginger_fox_in_the_cemetery_9ff4e09d-e4b4-44f8-91ba-ef92e873df09.png?w=604&amp;ssl=1 604w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wickedlola_a_bright_ginger_fox_in_the_cemetery_9ff4e09d-e4b4-44f8-91ba-ef92e873df09.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thethingsiremember.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wickedlola_a_bright_ginger_fox_in_the_cemetery_9ff4e09d-e4b4-44f8-91ba-ef92e873df09.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week my eldest little dog and myself quietly followed a fox late in the afternoon in the cemetery. It was a grey day, heavy and humid and still before the storm. He was beautiful and handsome and slightly evil looking at the same time and I was a little scared and in awe too. It was one of those precious moments that life gives us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often go to the cemetery with the dogs rather than the park. Or I go early to the park because I use my walks for thinking. Ideas for projects, life stuff and finding solutions to problems and just general forest bathing as someone wisely called it. I don\u2019t usually take my phone unless I really need to although this day I wished I had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So these words are perfect&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<cite>&#8220;Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.<br>I don&#8217;t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds<br>or hugging the old black oak tree.<br>I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours.<br>Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned.<br>I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.<br>If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.&#8221;<br>~Mary Oliver<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week my eldest little dog and myself quietly followed a fox late in the afternoon in the cemetery. It was a grey day, heavy and humid and still before the storm. 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