"Sometimes that which you don't understand is drawn to you so that you will understand it. But never because you needed the lesson, and not because all must be so initiated, but only because there had been earlier thoughts of awe, wonder, or criticism. And such thoughts, as all thoughts, must have rearranged your life."
This has been sticking in my mind, and I've been tossing it over in my head like a shiny new penny in one's palm.
I was reading the latest O Magazine and Martha Beck's column highlighted Mary Oliver's poetry, which I've also turned to over the years. In the column, she remembered the poem pieces here:
When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement
And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away
from wherever you are, to look for your soul
Maybe it is because earlier thoughts of awe or wonder or criticism that I am quite utterly amazed by things that are happening lately. A four month old baby was found in the Japanese rubble alive and unhurt. I was embraced and kissed by an Italian stranger in the street yesterday while on my way to get a salad for lunch (!) The temps neared 70 today and all thoughts of winter and blizzards were immediately forgiven and forgotten. And much to my surprise, today I heard "Dear Prudence" by the Beatles for the first time--ever. So I will quote the Fab Four and wish you much amazement in your own day:
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful, and so are you.
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Wait, are we to understand that you had never heard 'Dear Prudence' at all? Ever? Then this WAS a lucky day for you!!
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