Mary Oliver

I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall- what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Mary Oliver is beautifully open to the teachings contained within the smallest of moments. In A Thousand Mornings she explores, with startling clarity, humour and kindness, the mysteries of our daily experience.

A Thousand Mornings

“The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth,

gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth

like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can

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And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise.

For often I see his shape in the clouds and this is a continual blessing.

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