Looking together in the same direction.

Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.

by my favorite poet, Mary Oliver

"Instructions for living a life.

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it."

Mary Oliver


Thursday, January 31, 2019

Mary Oliver






     Poet Mary Oliver died a couple of weeks ago.  She will be sorely missed by a world that really needs her.  (see link to her obit)
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/577380646/beloved-poet-mary-oliver-who-believed-poetry-mustn-t-be-fancy-dies-at-83


     Meanwhile, I am back home.  I have 2 weeks worth of snow piled up everywhere.  It is so beautiful, but tell me why again I live in a place with so much snow and ice? 

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” 
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

     I do believe that a life without contrasts would be boring, though.

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