Currently viewing the tag: "Mary Oliver"

Another year gone

by Tania · No Comments

Fall Song by Mary Oliver Another year gone, leaving everywhere its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves, the uneaten fruits crumbling damply in the shadows, unmattering back from the particular island of this summer, this NOW, that now is nowhere except underfoot, moldering in that black subterranean castle of unobservable mysteries – roots and sealed seeds [...]

Continue Reading →

And have you changed your life?

by Tania · 3 Comments

  The Swan by Mary Oliver Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air – An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a [...]

Continue Reading →

Your place in the family of things…

by Tania · 3 Comments

Wild Geese  “You do not have to be good.  You do not have to walk on your knees  for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.  You only have to let the soft animal of your body  love what it loves.  Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.  Meanwhile the world [...]

Continue Reading →

Or have you too turned from this world–

by Tania · 3 Comments

The Sun Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone– and how it slides again out of the blackness, every morning, on the other side [...]

Continue Reading →
journey

The Journey

by Tania · 1 Comment

Learning, healing and spiritual growth can only take place within the individual. The teacher, doctor, therapist, and “healer” are only facilitators or guides. It is up to the individual to take responsibility for their own life; their own growth and well being. Free will. The Journey “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and [...]

Continue Reading →