Experiences
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
The Summer Day — Mary Oliver
“We saw the hypocrisy of America’s story. And the hypocrisy of American democracy was plain to us simply by looking upon our own condition. What White America in the 1950s was about was a kind of self indulgent individualism where people felt good and found identity in the marketplace of mass consumerism. The Black South didn’t have that luxury, we
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