Some things I am thinking about today....

"All through our gliding journey, on this day as on so many others, a little song runs through my mind. I say song because it passes musically, but it is really just words, a thought that is neither strange nor complex. In fact, how strange it would be not to think it -- not to have such music inside one's head and body, on such an afternoon. What does it mean, say the words, that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift I should bring to the world? What is the life I should live?"  - Mary Oliver (from "Flow," Long Life)

When will you have a little pity for

every soft thing

that walks through the world,

yourself included?

- Mary Oliver (from "Pen and Paper and a Breath of Air," Blue Pastures)

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.

- Mary Oliver (from "Wild Geese," Dream Work)