life

"so many people walk around with a meaningless life. they seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. this is because they're chasing the wrong things. the way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

morrie schwartz
tuesdays with morrie



you are my community.
you give my life purpose.
you give my life meaning.
i love you with all my heart.
my cup runneth over.
every.
single.
day.

love

"in business, people negotiate to win. they negotiate to get what they want. maybe you're too used to that. love is different. love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own."

morrie schwartz

tuesdays with morrie

a meeting

a meeting

she steps into the dark swamp
where the long wait ends.

the secret slippery package
drops to the weeds.

she leans her long neck and tongues it
between breaths slack with exhaustion

and after a while it rises and becomes a creature
like her, but much smaller.

so now there are two. and they walk together
like a dream under the trees.

in early june, at the edge of a field
thick with pink and yellow flowers

i meet them.
i can only stare.

she is the most beautiful woman
i have ever seen.

her child leaps among the flowers,
the blue of the sky falls over me

like silk, the flowers burn, and i want
to live my life all over again, to begin again,

to be utterly
wild.

by mary oliver

face of home

"At the moment, in much of the United States, homemaking is looked down upon as a profession. In reality, it is the most important profession and can be the most exciting of all....The home is our most important social institution and unless we give it the respect that is its due and stop the incessant erosion that is taking place, we will suffer irreparable loss....The home is the focal seat of education and emotional security. More and more the functions of the home have been taken over by the school, but the school is no substitute, no matter how fine the instructors or expensive the equipment....What mental insolvency has overtaken us that we can allow the core of our culture to be denigrated, weakened and reduced? Far better to burn your house to the ground and live in a cave than to lose the sense of wonder and privelege of making a home."

Bill Coperthwaite