March 22, 2007

• because this is what I am thinking about…

  
  

                                             

  
  

  I Must Remember This

  
  

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  I have few words right now but this Mary Oliver poem speaks to my heart and soothes my soul.

  
  

   

  
  

  “…And therefore I look upon everything
  as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
  and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
  and I consider eternity as another possibility,

  
  

  and I think of each life as a flower, as common
  as a field daisy, and as singular,

  
  

  and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
  tending, as all music does, toward silence,

  
  

  and each body a lion of courage, and something
  precious to the earth.

  
  

  When it’s over, I want to say all my life
  I was a bride married to amazement.
  I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

  
  

  When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
  if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

  
  

  I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
  or full of argument.

  
  

  I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”

  
  

  ~Mary Oliver

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

  Every day is a gift.

  
  

   

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