i adore mary oliver. here is another of my favorites from her:
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscape, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-- over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
and yes, she is wise with an eastern persuasion, the best persuasion to have. i send you love, dear.
ur so awesome leslie!!! It's Keeley! Do you remember me? I'm the "new girl" who went to the like the first OHS game with you, Paul, Nathan, JP and Besty....??? (the chicken dance at shoguns...lol...) Anyways, how r things going for ya?? I hope they're going great....things are ok around my parts, but they could be better... i d/k... see ya round the big O-boro!!!
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here is another of my favorites from her:
Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscape,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
and yes, she is wise with an eastern persuasion, the best persuasion to have. i send you love, dear.
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Love ya,
Keeley!!!
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