Posts Tagged ‘new year’

The Cure

January 1, 2012

Breakfast, Springfield Park cafe

 

 

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Honk if you support us

October 8, 2008

Just found this on another blog and it seems a good way to start my new year….

“Wild Geese”

Mary Oliver, Dream Work

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.

Geese on Warwick Reservoir

Geese on Warwick Reservoir, Hackney

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