Posts Tagged ‘mary oliver’

day twenty six = real life

In images, life on 26 December 2015 tagged december reflections, mary oliver with no comments

In bed with new slippers and a new book. I think all the answers I need are on these pages — at least I hope so. Mary Oliver never disappoints. Feeling all the sad feelings today, despite a beautifully joyous Christmas yesterday. Infertility and babyloss are the hardest, even at the best of times.

the journey

In images, life, poem of the day on 18 November 2012 tagged mary oliver with no comments

it was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. but little by little, as you left the voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company […]

in blackwater woods

In life, poem of the day on 25 January 2012 tagged blackwater woods, mary oliver with 1 comment

Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation, whose meaning none of us will ever know. To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold […]