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I Don’t Want To Live A Small Life: Poetry by Mary Oliver

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I Don’t Want To Live A Small Life: Poetry by Mary Oliver

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I don’t want to live a small life. Open your eyes, open your hands.   I have just come from the berry fields, the sun kissing me with its golden mouth all the way (open your hands) and the wind-winged clouds following along thinking perhaps I might feed them, but no I carry these heart-shapes only to you. Look […]

Let Me Be: Poetry For Celebrating Summer Solstice

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Let Me Be: Poetry For Celebrating Summer Solstice

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Poetry For Celebrating Summer Solstice Oh, the water lilies. See how they seem to open wider out of their own opening? Let me unfold like that—without thinking, without assuming I’m already open enough.   Do not let me close up, all stiff and stoic, like a walnut that will not crack. Don’t let me become […]

Paying Attention

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Paying Attention

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Jennifer Wolfe, a writer-teacher-mom, is dedicated to finding the extraordinary in the ordinary moments of life by thinking deeply, loving fiercely, and teaching audaciously. Read her stories on her blog, mamawolfe at jenniferwolfe.net.
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Paying attention requires no equipment, no special clothes, no greens fees or personal trainers. You do not even have to be in particularly good shape. All you need is a body on this earth, willing to notice where it is, trusting that even something as small as a hazelnut can become an altar in this […]