"The Uses of Sorrow"
Mary Oliver

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.


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There are so many things I need to do, I'm not sure if 70 - 80 years is nearly enough time.

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"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood ( Read more... )

How slow the body is to realize, that you are never coming back.

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I absolutely adore my job.

Most people are unhappy because they take life so seriously. But why bother? It isn't like life is all that permanent anyways.