Hello everyone.
I have spent the last week madly working between sun up and sun down, that time of light which is getting shorter by the minute. Fall is here and winter is coming. My goal in this transition time is to find a way to turn my madness into order. Not lose the energy but find some space in the midst of it all. I have a novel to finish and I need the space for that. I have a family to sit and read with, play with, hug and hang with and I need the space for that.
I want to be mindful and heartful and here. I want to hear the prayers that are made out of grass.
I have also spent the last few days trying to fix the BurnFeed feature on our blog so that we all get new posts in our inbox. I think I have fixed it. Let me know!
So for today, I leave you with this poem by one of my heroes, Mary Oliver.
Mindful
By Mary Oliver
Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less
kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light.
It was what I was born for—
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world—
to instruct myself
over and over
in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,
the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant—
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,
the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help
but grow wise
with such teachings
as these—
the untrimmable light
of the world,
the ocean’s shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?
Gratefully yours,
Tam
Thursday, October 25, 2012
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Thank you for sharing this lovely Mary Oliver poem! It's perfect and just want I needed at this time.
ReplyDeleteI love this poem Tam. Love Mary Oliver and her always reminders to lose ourselves in this beautiful world and to instruct ourselves again and again in joy. Thank you for this.
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