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Attentive to and delighting in her surroundings, Mary Oliver lived a life writing astonishing poetry

January 15, 2024

Tags: being astonished, elevating the ordinary, living a life, looking and listening, loving nature, Mary Oliver, paying attention, writing poetry
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Mary Oliver’s poem, Swan, awakens us to the transformational power of nature’s beauty

January 13, 2024

Tags: appreciating nature's beauty, interconnectivity, Mary Oliver, the majestic swan, the power of nature's beauty to transform us
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Enjoy cricket poems by Mary Oliver and Rita Dove from two points of view—the poet and the cricket

August 26, 2023

Tags: Mary Oliver, poems about crickets, points of view, Rita Dove
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Coming Home by Mary Oliver

July 15, 2022

Tags: committed togetherness, journeying through life together
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Mary Oliver reads a lovely poem about her dog

September 14, 2021

Tags: dogs, Mary Oliver, pets, poems about dogs
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Mary Oliver is the Messenger for Thanksgiving

November 26, 2020

Tags: Thanksgiving
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Mary Oliver is the Messenger for Thanksgiving

November 28, 2019

Tags: appreciating nature, attention, attention is the beginning of devotion, being astonished, being attentive, being thankful, gratitude, rejoicing, Thanksgiving
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In her poem, Mockingbirds, Mary Oliver teaches us how to listen, and be transformed by wonder

October 22, 2019

Tags: attention, listening, Mary Oliver, nature, observation, opening to the divine within nature, transformational power of attention, welcoming wonder
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Mary Oliver advises us to open up to joy and not hesitate if we suddenly and unexpectedly feel it

March 13, 2019

Tags: better than riches or power, feeling joy, Mary Oliver, when love begins
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The nurturing effect of rainwater in Mary Oliver’s poems Lingering In Happiness At Blackwater Pond

March 13, 2019

Tags: B.C., blackwater pond, happiness, Mary Oliver, rainwater, Sequoia, William Stafford
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