Monthly Archives: April 2008
The Journey
The Journey
By Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew what
you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting their bad advice,
“mend my life, mend my life,
mend my life,” each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop,
you knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though the melancholy was terrible,
It was [...]
If you have it, give it
“Feeling gratitude
and not expressing it,
is like wrapping a present
and not giving it.”
William Arthur Ward
I’m going to say something that may surprise you.
You may actually (initially) disagree, but if you were to conduct your own experiment, you would find that this is true, for most (if not all!) people.
When you ask someone how they [...]


