What if growing older did not have to mean becoming more serious, predictable or disconnected from the parts of yourself that once found delight in small, strange and beautiful things? For American poet Mary Oliver, wonder was not a childish distraction from life. It was one of the ways of paying attention to life. Her poetry repeatedly returned to birds, ponds, forests, dogs, oceans and the changing seasons, using the natural world to ask larger questions about how a person should live.
Quote of the day by Mary Oliver: “You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
