Tossing and turning and thinking and viewing
Chest clenched
First roiling and next fidgeting feet
Still–to solid
Heavy weight
Soft suggestion
Sleep
and quiet
Before
eyes open
yet again
to sigh
then start
to feel the quality of the light
and the clock pronouncing
the tomb-time
earliness
resistant to my noticing
a spark of joy
in earlier days
and later nights
out of the tomb
to feel earth
spin round
into Sun
–elisabeth connelley
Keats’ When I Have Fears
Washington Post article on Anselm Kiefer entitled: ‘Heaven’ Knows What German Artist Anselm Kiefer Is All About which led to finding a Hirshhorn Gallery Curator’s Lecture Podcast at the Heaven and Earth exhibition opening. (the podcast is a bit over an hour in length)
“What does it mean that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live?”
–Mary Oliver, Listening to the World, Interview On Being with Krista Tippett
I saw this during my blogroll travels this morning at Writing Without Paper. It is today’s Saturday Short, Mankind Is No Island.
Have you noticed? What have you done about it?
“I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.”
–Rachel Naomi Remen
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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