ecrituria:As chance would have it, I’m teaching Mary Oliver as part of my class on writing about the
ecrituria:As chance would have it, I’m teaching Mary Oliver as part of my class on writing about the environment. If you haven’t read her essays before, I highly recommend Upstream. RIP.“Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me, so many heavy coats. I didn’t choose them, I don’t fault them, but it took time to reject them. Now in the spring I kneel, I put my face into the packets of violets, the dampness, the freshness, the sense of ever-ness. Something is wrong, I know it, if I don’t keep my attention on eternity. May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream. May I look down upon the windflower and the bull thistle and the coreopsis with the greatest respect.” -- source link