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“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”

“I ask you again: if you have not been enchanted by this adventure — your life — what would do for you?”

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Don’t Hesitate - Mary Oliver
Don’t Hesitate - Mary Oliver

Morning Poem
By Mary Oliver

Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange

sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again

and fasten themselves to the high branches ---
and the ponds appear
like black cloth
on which are painted islands

of summer lilies.
If it is your nature
to be happy
you will swim away along the soft trails

for hours, your imagination
alighting everywhere.
And if your spirit
carries within it

the thorn
that is heavier than lead ---
if it's all you can do
to keep on trudging ---

there is still
somewhere deep within you
a beast shouting that the earth
is exactly what it wanted ---

each pond with its blazing lilies
is a prayer heard and answered
lavishly,
every morning,

whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy,
whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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You used to wonder how we never met, never saw each other while living in the village all those years at the same time. We imagined what it would have been like had we say reached for same book. How we could have felt like this earlier. But it’s been twice the time we were together and I have hundreds of new books now.

being without hurry
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