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<\/p>\nA last look at the sunny beach before summer\u2019s end, and a poem by Mary Oliver (b. 1935), whose birthday it is today. (This is not an upload glitch\u2014the Indian Village watercolor paper actually is irregularly shaped.)<\/p>\n
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Hello, sun in my face. \u2014Mary Oliver<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A last look at the sunny beach before summer\u2019s end, and a poem by Mary Oliver (b. 1935), whose birthday it is today. (This is not an upload glitch\u2014the Indian Village watercolor paper actually is irregularly shaped.) Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields andRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[103,104,19,3],"class_list":["post-6157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-beach","tag-nc","tag-poem","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6169,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHello, you who made the morning
\nand spread it over the fields
\nand into the faces of the tulips
\nand the nodding morning glories,
\nand into the windows of, even, the
\nmiserable and the crotchety\u2014
\nbest preacher that ever was,
\ndear star, that just happens
\nto be where you are in the universe
\nto keep us from ever-darkness,
\nto ease us with warm touching,
\nto hold us in the great hands of light\u2014
\ngood morning, good morning, good morning.
\nWatch, now, how I start the day
\nin happiness, in kindness.
\n <\/em><\/p>\n