“Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled — to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery. I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing — that the light is everything — that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and falling. And I do.”
― Mary Oliver, House of Light
The rain pours off and on all day.
I slip outside for a few minutes just to feel it on my face -
maybe wanting to prove to myself that I am alive,
and capable. Capable of finding beauty in the world
right outside my door.
I am pleased when I find the spider web,
pleased the evergreen glitters like magic,
and, that the rain soaked leaf landed in the perfect spot
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