I struggled a bit choosing which piece to bring you today to celebrate love on this Valentine’s Day. I finally settled on this simple and beautiful poem from Mary Oliver. Dogs are such givers of unconditional love and if I were to live by Percy’s advice I suspect I would lead a satisfying and good [...]
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I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Mary Oliver, Poetry, tagged Animals, Dog, Love, Trust on February 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Logos
Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Love, Mary Oliver, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged Love, Miracles on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why wonder about the loaves and the fishes? If you say the right words, the wine expands. If you say them with love and the felt ferocity of that love and the felt necessity of that love, the fish explode into the many. Imagine him, speaking, and don’t worry about what is reality, or what [...]
This World
Posted in Mary Oliver, Mindfulness, Poetry on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I would like to write a poem about the world that has in it nothing fancy. But it seems impossible. Whatever the subject, the morning sun glimmers it. The tulip feels the heat and flaps its petals open and becomes a star. The ants bore into the peony bud and there is the dark pinprick well [...]
Red Bird: Summer Story
Posted in Mary Oliver, Poetry on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good morning friends. As promised, I’ve got a new poem from Mary Oliver’s brand new book: Red Bird. This book was expected out April 4th or 5th, so for those of us who can’t get enough of Mary Oliver, it was a real treat that publication happened a week earlier. Enjoy… Summer Story When the [...]
A Note Left on the Door
Posted in Mary Oliver, Poetry on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are these: the blue skirts of the ocean walking in now, almost to the edge of town, and a thousand birds, in their incredible wings which they think nothing of, crying out that the day is long, the fish are plentiful. And friends, being as kind as friends can be, striving to lift the [...]
Not Figuring It All Out
Posted in elizabeth adams, Happiness, Inspiration, Mary Oliver, Spirituality, tagged Nature on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was asking myself something about a concern I had, when a little voice came through and said ‘you don’t have to figure it out’. Not only that, the little voice said: ‘turn and look out your window; now tell the alders, tell the cedars, tell the pines and lastly, tell the firs your concerns. [...]
How Everything Adores Being Alive
Posted in Mary Oliver, Poetry on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What if you were a beetle, and a soft wind and a certain allowance of time had summoned you out of your wrappings, and there you were, so many legs hardening, maybe even more than one pair of eyes and the whole world in front of you? And what if you had wings and flew [...]
Morning at Great Pond
Posted in Mary Oliver, Poetry on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It starts like this: forks of light slicking up out of the east, flying over you, and what’s left of night– its black waterfalls, its craven doubt – dissolves like gravel as the sun appears trailing clouds of pink and green wool, igniting the fields, turning the ponds to plates of fire. The creatures there [...]
Song of the Builders
Posted in Mary Oliver, Poetry, Spirituality on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime. Near me, I saw a single cricket; it was moving the grains of the hillside this way and that way. How great was its energy, how humble its effort. Let us hope it will always be like [...]
When I Am Among the Trees
Posted in Mary Oliver, Poetry, Spirituality on December 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness, I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, and discernment, and [...]
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