One of my beautiful friends from school shared this Mary Oliver poem with a group of us last week. Which reminded me of reading Mary with another dear friend. We are meant to live life with others. We are not meant to be alone. Though loneliness seems to be close by, I must remember that I am not alone. Like Mary writes...we all have a place in the family of things!
Wild Geese
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 loves.
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.
~Mary Oliver
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