Sunday, July 8, 2012

Vaca!

The Columbia River Gorge ~ Oregon

The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper . . .











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 have to die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?


by Mary Oliver (b 1935)
Contemporary American Poet
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1984
This poem found in New and Selected Poems

Mount St. Helens ~ Washington

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Portland & Seattle

Mount St. Helens

~ And Earlier ~
Birthday & Memorial Day

(Maryland ~ Washington D.C. ~ Notre Dame ~ Las Vegas)

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