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Deborah Brasket's avatar

Thank you for this. I spent yesterday in the ICU with a dear friend who is dying. We talked of such things: walking through that door full of curiosity, looking at time as a concept, not a reality, and eternity as more than a possibility. She had lived her life as a bride married to amazement, taking the world into her arms. I will miss her.

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Patris's avatar

Beautiful. Feeling every bit of this. Fellow dweller on the threshold.

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Michael Mohr's avatar

👍

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Michael Mohr's avatar

Mmmm beautiful. “and I look upon time as no more than an idea,

and I consider eternity as another possibility...”

This reminds me of Kierkegaard when he writes about death and inauthentic men and the difference between possibility versus the limits of the physical body. I’m also currently reading Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death. And my father died two weeks ago. So this is all on my mind.

https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/death

Michael Mohr

‘Sincere American Writing’

https://michaelmohr.substack.com/

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Dr. Deborah Hall's avatar

may this poem be a balm

as you grieve your dad

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Frank Aguilera's avatar

A poem filled with meaning and true understanding of the human experience. I loved it.

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Dian Parker's avatar

Yes! You curate great thoughts. Thank you.

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Dr. Deborah Hall's avatar

dear God what a blessing

I received

in reading this

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Ruth Villiger-Wilson's avatar

Beautiful Mary Oliver - what a treasure she is.

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Chris Bodor's avatar

Perfect and universal. This poem cuts deep.

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Patrick J Foster's avatar

Having spent each breath

astounded by life's beauty;

the next adventure!

- paje foster

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Wendi's avatar

Wow, I needed this.

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Hannah K's avatar

Love this experience of death. So precious and beautiful

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Thank you so much. What words ... brimful of curiosity, gentle ambition to live well and energy to inspire all of us to aspire to the same ...

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Barbara Ganschow's avatar

Love truly is all there is…wonder and curiosity acting as guides.

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Lisa B. Martin    zihuawriter's avatar

Mary Mary Mary. Two nights ago at an open mic in a big red country barn here in Wisconsin I read aloud 'Wild Geese' by Mary Oliver. Show stopper. I love Mary, a fellow Massachusetts being, she was. Her works: a brilliant gift to literature and life. She LIVED. And wrote about it.

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Philippa Rees's avatar

Just wonderful, as was her 'curiosity'. One must hope for a similar economy when the time comes.

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Katie H/Emerging Creator's avatar

Divine understanding xx

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