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Mary Oliver • New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
The poet Mary Oliver writes, “Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
Ingrid Fetell Lee • Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness
Contemplating their loss, I could relate to Henry David Thoreau, who, a hundred and seventy years earlier, living not far from where I live now, wrote about mourning the loss of a tree just like mine: A plant which it has taken two centuries to perfect, rising by slow stages into the heavens, has this afternoon ceased to exist . . . Why does not th
... See moreSuzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Nature, Man, and Woman, written during the summer of 1957.3 This must
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
I do believe it’s possible to become “not I, but the wind that blows through me,” as Lowry said,
Nastassja Martin • In the Eye of the Wild
Let age be age. Let your old relative or old friend be who they are. Denial serves nothing, no one, no purpose.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Don't waste your wildness + the 8 inner conflicts that shape who we are + a tender cosmic fable about the rhythms and consolations of friendship
Maria Popovanewsletters.feedbinusercontent.comA healthy forest must need dead trees. They’ve been around since the beginning. Birds turn them to use, and small mammals, and more forms of insects lodge and dine on them than science has ever counted. She wants to raise her hand and say, like Ovid, how all life is turning into other things. But she doesn’t have the data.