Several years ago, when I had muscles and no grey hair (excuse me for the nostalgia), we chalk-arted a sidewalk in a smoky evacuated California town, while road-tripping with our kindergartener (oops, more nostalgia), and the phrase that surfaced for me, to write as an offering to whomever might come by before the prayed-for rain … Continue reading Rebekka Walker shares Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things
This is the poet, Mary Oliver's, take, on what those three things are. In Blackwater Woods Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the blue shoulders of the ponds, … Continue reading To live in this world, you must be able to do three things