We haven’t had any Mary Oliver in a long time. This is one of my favorites, When Death Comes: When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if [...]
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We haven’t had any Mary Oliver in a long time. Here’s a favorite of mine. Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for – to look, to listen, to lose [...]
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I want to offer you our 2013 Ignatian Inspirations Calendar. I chose the quotations so, yes, there is Mary Oliver and all the usual suspects! Simply fill in your address below and I will mail it out to you. Let me know if you want it in English or Spanish. This offer has now closed. [...]
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“It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.” — Mary Oliver I acknowledge the paradoxical truth of this statement, but gulp a bit as I do so. It is true, I believe, that anything worthwhile I have learned in life has not come easily, but has been the result of pain and [...]
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I’m sorry. You’ve heard this from me many times before and you’ll probably have to put up with it again. I am haunted by Mary Oliver’s question: Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? I believe that my life is precious and there are moments at [...]
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I found this video of Mary Oliver’s “What I have learned so far” which was made by Marquette University for their service learning program. You know me – a sucker for anything and everything Mary Oliver.
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From Mary Oliver’s 2004 collection, Why I Wake Early: On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime. Near me, I saw a single cricket; it was moving the grains of the hillside this way and that way. How great was its energy, how humble its [...]
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I keep discovering poems by the great Mary Oliver that I’m certain I’ve shared with you, only to discover that I haven’t yet. The title of this poem is Logos and I encourage you to read the whole thing. The extract I quote below is especially relevant to me because, until I was in my [...]
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I can’t quite believe I haven’t quoted this before… another gem from Mary Oliver: just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak. Read the entire poem here
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Mary Oliver again. She never lets you down, does she? This is from Halleluiah Everyone should be born into this world happy and loving everything. But in truth it rarely works that way. For myself, I have spent my life clamoring toward it. Halleluiah, anyway I’m not where I started! And have you too been [...]
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