Showing posts with label mortality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mortality. Show all posts

Sunday, November 11, 2012

A Love Primer


 





















“…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. ”


—from “In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver


[Art by Jamie Wyeth.]
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