Mary Oliver

Welcome to the 'Mary Oliver' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Mary Oliver'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Mary Oliver”

• Thankful

  
  While Walking Duncan — Authority: 128
  Among the many things for which I am thankful (my family and friends, my health, the sweet sunlight of laughter, the crispness and weight of a good book in my hands, new pens on new paper, the feel of climbing into a bed with fresh sheets, the unexpected exhilaration of a shooting star, fireflies, the poems of Mary ...
  2 days ago

• Poetry to remind us that withdrawing doesn’t solve rejection

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 436
  Is is easy to retreat from life Barack Obama said of his natural father – he had difficult life because he did not reach out to people. When times are difficult, we tend to retreat from the world.  When we are unpopular in the playground, we pick up our toys and go home.  Then we really have no one to play with ...
  6 days ago

• Flu Sunday

  
  Pensacola Daily Photo Blog — Authority: 129
  Im not oinking or anything like that but Ive had the flu for about a week or so and now I find myself low on photographs of current events. I pawed through my stash of photos and found this one of the live oaks on my street, one of the many reasons I wanted to live here. I was in my jammies when I photographed them ...
  6 days ago

• The Visitor

  
  Over Good Ground — Authority: 124
  Late one night I was working at my computer desk and this moth flew right past my face and landed on a folder. It startled me. It must have come into the house when I went outside with Carl before bedtime. Since mine was the only light that was on in a dark house it was naturally drawn to my desk. Pretty little thing ...
  6 days ago

• Mary Oliver: In Blackwater Woods

  
  Read Write Believe — Authority: 414
  My niece, Emily, would have been thirteen years old yesterday. Her family hosted a purple balloon release at her gravesite.  I couldnt be there, but this poem by Mary Oliver is the balloon Im releasing today. Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of ...
  1 week ago

• Why I love this poet.

  
  Over Good Ground — Authority: 124
  Black Swallowtail The caterpillar, interesting but now exactly lovely, humped along among the parsley leaves eating, always eating. Then one night it was gone and in its place a small green confinement hung by two silk threads on a parsley stem. I think it took nothing with it except faith, and patience. And then one ...
  1 week ago

• “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” ~ Kenji Miyazawa

  
  Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings on Life, Love & Other Trifles — Authority: 122
  Aside from finding new blogs to read and achieving high levels in online Bookworm, not much new to report. Coreys burn on his arm is healing nicely, just a little sore and no infection on the part that blistered. Its getting ready to rain again because we so obviously need more rain. Tillie has been hanging out on the ...
  1 week ago

• A Thank You or Two

  
  Flux Theatre Ensemble — Authority: 424
  A brief post of gratitude to: Tim Errickson of Boomerang Theatre Company for mentioning Fluxs ForePlay series in his interview with Leonard Jacobs as part of an article for Backstage regarding multi-disciplinary and dark night programming. On that subject, allow me to again voice my admiration for Electric ...
  1 week ago

• tall order

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  My work is loving the world, here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird– equal seekers of sweetness. . . . Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. Excerpted from “Messenger” © 2006 Mary Oliver in Thirst. (Beacon Press ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

  
  Necromancy Never Pays — Authority: 118
  When I got to the part of having the flu where I could open my eyes for a bit, I lay in bed and read some childrens books. The first one was Sherman Alexies The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian because Ive been seeing recommendations of it everywhere and my friend the Lass particularly wanted me to read ...
  2 weeks ago

• Comfort at Sunset

  
  While Walking Duncan — Authority: 128
  Duncan dragged me to the lake tonight, a place we have looked upon but not visited recently. He was on another of his missions it seemed, pulling me behind him, that determined and set look on his face, ignoring the rustling of the leaves in the shrubs where the rabbits crouch, slipping past the trunks of the trees ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who Said This?

  
  Over Good Ground — Authority: 124
  "Something whispered something that was not even a word. It was more like a silence that was understandable. I was standing at the edge of the pond. Nothing living, what we call living, was in sight. And yet, the voice entered me, my body, with so much happiness. And there was nothing there but the water, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dawns Full Moon Setting Over The Fog-Filled Valley ~

  
  Vulture Peak Muse — Authority: 113
  I dont know exactly what a prayer is.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... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 weeks ago

• Still...Life

  
  Cathyann's Studio — Authority: 116
  Memorial:Red,White and Blue©2009 C.L.Burgess oil on linen 8x6" How important it is to walk along, not in haste but slowly, looking at everything and calling out Yes! No! To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. edited from the work of Mary ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Journey by Mary Oliver

  
  Divine Self! — Authority: 112
  One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice ‑ though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with ...
  4 weeks ago

• Finding Time for Time’s Mystery

  
  The Time Finder with Paula Eder — Authority: 123
  Finding time wasn’t easy yesterday.  Do you have days like that? It was both busy and one of the most beautiful October days that one could hope for … blue sky, bright sun, clear air, and yellow leaves making the woods vibrant with color and energy.  I hadn’t gotten outside on Sunday, so was determined to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tessa Bielecki’s Recommended Reading for Growing in Intimacy with Christ

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 470
  In her CD teaching series Wild at Heart: Radical Teachings of the Christian Mystics , former-Carmelite-turned-desert hermit Tessa Bielecki offers a wealth of suggestions of books one can read to deepen a sense of who Christ is. This veritable library for Christian formation includes poetry, art books, lives of saints ...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about Mary Oliver