Every day I want to speak with you. And every day something more important / calls for my attention -- the drugstore, the beauty products, the luggage / I need to buy for the trip./Even now I can hardly sit here / among the falling piles of paper and clothing, the garbage trucks outside/ already…
...If I had another lifeI would want to spend it all/on some unstinting happiness.I would be a fox, or a treefull of waving branches.I wouldn't mind being a rosein a field of roses.Fear has not yet occurred to them,/nor ambition.Reason they have not yet thought of.Neither do they ask how long they/must be roses, and…
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things.-Gilbert K. ChestertonToday I biked the 4 miles uphill to campus, taught an intermediate Russian class for a friend who was taking her Ph.D. exams and then went to a dissertation workshop. Afterwards, inspired by my new "let's get this thing done"…
When it's over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.-Mary Oliver ("When Death Comes")Despite not being a poetry person, when I heard these words after Monday evening's intense front- and back-bend-themed yoga class (yes, *ouch*), they stuck with me. Probably…
"...would not, from all the borders of itself,burst like a star: for here there is no placethat does not see you. You must change your life." -Rainer Maria Rilke ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")Last week I received the last line of this poem in an email from my local and most frequented yoga school; the "teacher…
Dining with Dostoevsky 