Regret – May 30, 2019
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” -Mary Oliver, “Of Power and Time,” Upstream
Loyalty – May 29, 2019
“…creative work requires loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity.” -Mary Oliver, “Of Power and Time,” Upstream
The Work – May 28, 2019
“There is the thing that one does, the needle one plies, the work, and within that work a chance to take thoughts that are hot and formless and to place them slowly and with meticulous effort into some shapely heat-retaining form, even as the gods, or nature, or the soundless wheels of time have made […]
Attention – May 27, 2019
Mary Oliver is one who saw “thin places” in the natural world. For her, objects and animals shimmer with eternal presence. For your reflections this week, I have chosen selections from her book of short biographical essays, Upstream (New York: Penguin Press, 2016). –Marjory Zoet Bankson “Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long […]
