How to Love This World – May 15, 2019
Somewhere a black bear has just risen from sleep and is staring down the mountain… There is only one question: how to love this world. I think of her rising like a black and leafy ledge to sharpen her claws against the silence of the trees. -Mary Oliver, from “Spring”
Turning Into Something – May 14, 2019
The light burns upward, it thickens and settles over the fields… Even before the sun itself hangs, disattached, in the blue air, I am touched everywhere by its ocean of yellow waves…. And then I feel the sun itself as it blazes over the hills, like a million flowers on fire— clearly I’m not needed, […]
A Gift – May 10, 2019
Just when you seem to yourselfnothing but a flimsy webof questions, you are giventhe questions of others to holdin the emptiness of your hands,songbird eggs that can still hatchif you keep them warm,butterflies opening and closing themselvesin your cupped palms, trusting you not to injuretheir scintillant fur, their dust.You are given the questions of othersas […]
Knock, Vanish, Fall, Become – Mar. 20, 2019
Knock, And He’ll open the doorVanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sunFall, And He’ll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything. -Rumi
