Meeting Death Full of Curiosity: Three Poems
Our lives are full of curious and mysterious things, and I’m quite certain what came before our birth and after …
Tag Archives: Mary Oliver
A Poet & Artist, Making the Unknown Known
What precipitates the creative process? For poet Mary Oliver, it’s the need to step over “the edge” into something vague …
Summering Upstream with Mary Oliver
Slowly this summer I’ve been reading and savoring Mary Oliver’s book of essays Upstream while sitting on my patio sipping …
A Friend Meets Death, Full of Curiosity
Our lives are full of curious and mysterious things, and I’m quite certain what came before our birth and after …
Beauty the Brave, the Exemplary, Bursting Open
What is it about the fragile, fleeting, and flagrant beauty of flowers that can so break a heart? I wrote …
Grieving for America, and Getting Past It
I found this quote by Mary Oliver in a recent blog post and it struck a chord. Ah, world, what …
Finding Our Place in the Family of Things
I often turn to the poetry of Mary Oliver when seeking solace, when trying to negotiate a path through the …
Mary Oliver, Washed in Light
One of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, died last week. I do not have the words to tell you how …
A Poet & an Artist on Making the Unknown Known
I came across two quotations about the creative process recently and found such striking similarities I had to explore them …
Happiness Like Holiness
I’ve been ill–nothing serious–but lying in bed day after day, even surrounded by good books, tends toward melancholy. Reading Mary …
