Poetry Sunday: Don't Hesitate by Mary Oliver
How about we share another Mary Oliver poem? After all, you can never have too many of those. In this one, the poet seems to acknowledge that it is often hard to simply live in and enjoy the moment, perhaps because we are afraid it can't last. She urges us to give in to that moment and fully experience the joy. Although "much can never be redeemed, still, life has some possibility left." Don't Hesitate by Mary Oliver If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is no...
I keep telling myself that it will probably take Congress four years of discussion and bickering before they finally find an alternative plan they can vote on. By then--I hope!--we can elect a new administration.
ReplyDeleteThe potential for damage to the country and the world in the next four years - and not just to health care - is so great that it must give us all pause and make us determined to resist in whatever way we can.
DeleteYup, that about covers it. What I don't get is why they can't go straight to fixing instead of repealing first.
ReplyDeletePerhaps because that would be the sensible thing to do. Sensibleness is not a feature of our soon-to-be installed government.
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