Saturday, June 26, 2010

Summer Morning

{along the coast of Rhode Island, from our summer vacation}

To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:

to love what is mortal;

to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems

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