You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it love.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Wild Geese from Dream Work
Mary Oliver
Saint Meg's ready for a belated Earth Day celebration.
Cupcakes for last night's choir baby shower.
the honored guest, Samuel Richard.
The "family of things" - mmmm - yet one person connects with another (telling her story) - so I guess we need people as well as a place in the world. Nice combo with Earth Day, cupcakes, and a newborn.
ReplyDeleteThere should be more showers with the baby present, they'd be a lot less boring. Pretty cupcakes!
ReplyDeleteThank you! They turned out well--one batch of lemon and one of chocolate fudge. And it was fun--we ate and sat and stared at the baby.
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