Wild Geese

by Mary Oliver
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 [...]

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Sitting in an airport

Meant to publish this earlier, but got interrupted.
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Gotta love an airport that has free wireless! I’m on my way to the second conference of the week. What a jet-setter eh
Actually, I drove mi little truck to the first one (finally sold the other car, yay!) and it was amazing. The most glorious day [...]

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Simply Radio

Or not so simply when you think about all that goes into it. Where it comes from, all over the nation, sometimes beyond, with music. Then there’s all of the years that have gone into the station, the people, the knowledge, the equipment. Then there’s you and I, and the lives we’ve lived that bring [...]

Amazing

Some things just are.
Sunny fall days are more beautiful because they’re about to become more rare. I appreciate the color more on the trees because there is less of it. The wind blows gustily and me with it, in this small house in the trees.
So my body began a rebellion against coffee, my one [...]

Forget Your Name, Forget Your Fear

Woke up this morning with a monstrous headache. Before leaving the house a string of calls shoved me into the chill morning.
“Congratulations, blah blah blah…”
and another, “Congrats!”
The blah blah blah was work related, and the congratulations, after some questioning, I found out their meaning was because Barack had indeed won. Before I had already [...]