Mary Oliver: “Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”
Just so.
…for always the new self swimming around in the old world feels itself uniquely verbal. And that is just the point: how the world, moist and bountiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That’s the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. “Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”
–Mary Oliver, Long Life (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2004)
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Image credit: Kirk Livingston
conversation is an engine 
Oh I love her. ❤
createarteveryday
March 4, 2015 at 8:41 am
Oh I just saw the rest of the post. Thanks so much for posting this. Man, I love her deep. She is … no words exist.
createarteveryday
March 4, 2015 at 8:57 am
And the photo is perfect. (I’ve had v little sleep for too long and I have to do people’s taxes all day. Help!! Brain needs zzzzz)
createarteveryday
March 4, 2015 at 8:59 am
Consider napping.
kirkistan
March 4, 2015 at 9:19 am
Lol! Yes. Thanks. 🙂
createarteveryday
March 4, 2015 at 9:46 am