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Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
Old age isn’t a state of mind. It’s an existential situation.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ – MARY OLIVER
Catherine Gray • The Unexpected Joy of Being Single
The poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver with some suggestions for your one precious life:
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On creating meaning, the remarkable odds of your existence, and life instructions
When we do this, we’re beginning to scratch the surface of the essence of life. Mary Oliver, in her poem “The Summer Day,” asks “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”19 It’s a rich question, full of simplicity and complexity. Those that read it fall into two camps. The first camp is inspired. Oliver assumes that
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