Mary Oliver Archives | A Million Beautiful Pieces

Oh, hello July and welcome to the second half of 2018.

How amazing that we have six months left of this year? Six months to plan, dream or just BE.

The last two mornings I woke up feeling so excited that I have so much to be grateful for. I’m mostly grateful for TIME.

While the last four months have been wonderful; it was also challenging in terms of having sufficient time to do everything I needed to do. I also had so little time to do what I wanted to do…. Like write and read.

So, with my heart bursting with expectation I am excited to make good on every day that I have left in this year.

What are you going to do with the TIME you have left in 2018?

Mary Oliver’s Morning Poem is a beautiful reminder of the gift of each new day.

I love poetry and good quotes. It is amazing how the stringing together of words can effect a heart as powerfully as Mary Olivers’ The Journey affected me when I first read it a few years ago.

Enjoy xxx

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 its stiff fingers

at the very foundations,

though their melancholy

was terrible.

It was already late

enough, and a wild night,

and the road full of fallen

branches and stones.

But little by little,

as you left their voice behind,

the stars began to burn

through the sheets of clouds,

and there was a new voice

which you slowly

recognized as your own,

that kept you company

as you strode deeper and deeper

into the world,

determined to do

the only thing you could do —

determined to save

the only life that you could save.

by Mary Oliver

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Hello July

The Journey by Mary Oliver