{"id":15768,"date":"2013-03-27T23:52:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T23:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewildbeat.com\/?p=15768"},"modified":"2020-08-02T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:04:10","slug":"the-kingfisher-wasnt-born-to-think-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=15768","title":{"rendered":"The Kingfisher Wasn’t Born to Think About It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“The kingfisher rises out of the black wave
\nlike a blue flower, in his beak
\nhe carries a silver leaf. I think this is
\nthe prettiest world — so long as you don’t mind
\na little dying, how could there be a day in your
\nwhole life that doesn’t have its splash of happiness?<\/p>\n

There are more fish than there are leaves
\non a thousand trees, and anyway the kingfisher
\nwasn’t born to think about it, or anything else.
\nWhen the wave snaps shut over his blue head, the
\nwater remains water — hunger is the only story
\nhe has ever heard in his life that he could believe.”<\/p>\n

~ From The Kingfisher<\/a> by Mary Oliver<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Belted Kingfisher photographed mid-hover, on a cloudy day over Puget Sound in Seattle. Processed in Silver Efex Pro.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Kingfisher Hover – \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n

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Belted Kingfisher – \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n

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