"BREAKING: CDC announces that if you have been vaccinated for two weeks or more, you do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees through the desert for a hundred miles, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." (via onyxaminedlife on twitter)
“June. July. August. (…) Everything wrong, and nowhere to go.”
— Mary Oliver, from August in “New And Selected Poems: Volume Two”
every morning i wake up & get my coffee & i recite in my head this excerpt from ‘invitation,’ by mary oliver: “it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.” & i just say it over & over again until it sticks to my mind for the rest of the day. it is a serious thing. i am alive. i am so lucky. this fresh morning i get the chance to live again & again & again
“I’m here, I’m here. Now, now, now, now, now.”
— Mary Oliver, from Devotions: The Selected Poems; “From The Book Of Time,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
Mary Oliver memes via Peyton Thomas on twitter
"sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed." - Mary Oliver, daily lettering by Lisa Congdon
— Mary Oliver (via blessed-beach)
Mary Oliver (via skycladgoddess)
Mary Oliver (via shetakesflight)
