Friends –<\/p>\n
Contemplating the loss of dear Tom Kennedy, I wanted to share with you all a poem by Mary Oliver from her book “New and Selected Poems.”<\/p>\n
Her poetry always illuminates inexpressible thoughts for me and startles me into the preciousness of this moment of life.<\/p>\n
The last line says it all….<\/p>\n
All love,
\nCathy<\/p>\n
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SUMMER DAY
\nWho made the world?
\nWho made the swan, and the black bear?
\nWho made the grasshopper?
\nThis grasshopper, I mean-
\nthe one who has flung herself out of the grass,
\nthe one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
\nwho is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
\nwho is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
\nNow she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
\nNow she snaps her wings open, and floats away.<\/p>\n
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
\nI do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
\ninto the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
\nhow to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
\nwhich is what I have been doing all day.
\nTell me, what else should I have done?
\nDoesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?<\/p>\n
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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