Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled –
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.

The snow
began here
this morning and all day
continued, its white
rhetoric everywhere
calling us back to why, how,
whence such beauty and what
such an oracular fever!

~ Mary Oliver

"Contemplating impermanence can be a liberating experience, one that brings both sobriety and joy."

~ Sakyong Mipham

"Fall, falling, fallen. That's the way the season
Changes its tense in the long-haired maples
That dot the road"

~ Edward Hirsch

“Look, I want to love this world
as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get
to be alive
and know it.”

~ Mary Oliver