My most recent post was a list of three bits of sound advice from three guys. To cap that, I add this, the tag end of Mary Oliver’s poem In Blackwater Woods. It is the sum total of my spiritual life. Just about all of it. Nearly the whole thing. I thought you might find it useful, as well…
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
I didn’t say they would be easy. But, nonetheless, do I hear an amen?
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