Created Sept 1, 2017
I was inspired by this poem, particularly the last line. One day it occurred to me how hard you all work. Meetings, travel, get up and go, and I want to shake you and say…”Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”.
Keep scrolling down. I gave you a present at the end.
“The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
(Shhhhhh…..I changed the words for you, for us.)
Who made the world?
Who made the vagina, and the clitoris?
Who made the clitoris?
This clitoris, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her hips back and forth as well as up and down-
who is gazing at me with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her light brown thighs and thoroughly washes my face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into her earth, how to kneel down into that soil,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through her fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
