{"id":1308,"date":"2012-05-18T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2012-05-18T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:16:50","slug":"finding-enchantment-foxes-in-the-thin-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/18\/finding-enchantment-foxes-in-the-thin-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Enchantment &#038; Foxes in the Thin Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1241\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/110-fox-family.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1241\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1241\" title=\"Foxes\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/110-fox-family.jpg?resize=590%2C221\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kits in their storm drain den and their Momma right before being released<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at The Bishop\u2019s Ranch, where nature and human industry embrace, a wonderful discovery was made, a family of foxes.\u00a0 For those of you who have never visited the Ranch it is surrounded on three and a half sides with farm industry.\u00a0 To the North and much of the West is a 600 head dairy farm.\u00a0 Lucky for us it\u2019s an organic dairy but it still has the same dust and bustle of any such business.\u00a0 To our East and Southern flanks are big business grape vineyards.\u00a0 These mega farms have mechanical trimmers and sprayers and later harvesters going 24 hours a day.\u00a0 And here we sit, something of an oasis, an in between place, 15 acres of buildings and grounds designed for respite, reflection and restoration.\u00a0 There is a sliver of land to the South that reaches westward and these approximately 350 Ranch acres remain relatively wild. Trails meander through the land with a few bridges to help the human wander through this zigzag watershed of winter creeks and streams.\u00a0 \u00a0So I consider the Ranch a <em>thin place.\u00a0 <\/em>A thin place between nature and human endeavors and a thin place where the spirit can reach through, and magical, spiritual, enchanting things can happen.\u00a0 So finally I get to the foxes.\u00a0 Last weekend a couple of little girls were observed peering down a drainage grate, dropping raisins down oohing and ahhing with every plop.\u00a0 They had discovered in their meandering through the Ranch a magical thing, three kit foxes curled up with the midday sun directly above them, securely protected three feet from the surface by a heavy metal grate.\u00a0 Here in this in between place, the mother fox had taken refuge, and ironically found the perfect home in the rain drains running under the cottage circle.\u00a0 There her kits are protected (even with the crazy bustle of pool construction going on over head) she has safe passage in and out and even water at one end.\u00a0 You see two of the kits pictured above in their \u201cden\u201d peering up perhaps hoping for more raisins from heaven.\u00a0 The momma fox (or so we speculate) was caught in the live traps set out for the raccoons by the garbage cans.\u00a0 She was quickly released and seen dashing directly to her wee kits a few hundred yards away.\u00a0 And so refuge and respite is here at The Bishop\u2019s Ranch in this <em>thin place,<\/em> this in-between place, for foxes and humans to experience wonder and enchantment in lots of places and ways including a storm drain with a box of raisins.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lot\u2019s of art is newly posted on my website so check it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpe.com\">http:\/\/lisathorpe.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week at The Bishop\u2019s Ranch, where nature and human industry embrace, a wonderful discovery was made, a family of foxes.\u00a0 For those of you who have never visited the Ranch it is surrounded on three and a half sides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[88,96],"tags":[360,361,21,768],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-spiritual","tag-fox-kits-in-storm-drain","tag-foxes","tag-the-bishops-ranch","tag-thin-places"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Finding Enchantment &amp; 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