{"id":124,"date":"2026-07-20T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fieldnotes2126.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:35:06","slug":"the-orchard-of-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Ripples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_3869-541x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125\" style=\"width:730px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_3869-541x1024.jpg 541w, https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_3869-159x300.jpg 159w, https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_3869-768x1453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_3869-812x1536.jpg 812w, https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_3869-1082x2048.jpg 1082w, https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_3869.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lake Whitehall, Hopkinton MA in November<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><br>In space, in time, we sit,<br>counting the ripples<br>and the goosebumps.<br><br>Time in the heart goes still.<br>This quiet is known as love,<br>certain and reproducible<br>as cold water,<br>or the spirited adventures of a dream.<br><br>When the sunlight kisses the face,<br>the will fades to joy.<br>The evening star<br>shines bright and still,<br>a sweet,<br>sweet steady flame.<br>A presence, felt.<br><br>I feel you here<br>doing your quiet work on the soul.<br>In the solitude,<br>I am whole.<br>In the solitude,<br>I am yours.<br><br><strong>Reflections<\/strong><br><br>Cold-water immersion is one of the few voluntary acts that forces total presence. You cannot ruminate mid-plunge. The nervous system doesn't have bandwidth left for anything but the here and now. That's the same demand Ripples makes of love: not a state you ease into, but a shock you enter fully, which is precisely what clears the noise and tells you, unmistakably, that you're alive in it.<br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You cannot ruminate mid-plunge. The nervous system doesn&#8217;t have bandwidth left for anything but the here and now. That&#8217;s the same demand Ripples makes of love: not a state you ease into, but a shock you enter fully, which is precisely what clears the noise and tells you, unmistakably, that you&#8217;re alive in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,27,18,17],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-freedom","tag-love","tag-presence","tag-resilience"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_3869-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_3869-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kristen Holmes","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/?author=1"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_3869.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldnotesonbeinghuman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}