http://www.aliveworld.com/search/SearchResults.aspxSearch results matching tags 'Aliveworld Team' and 'mary oliver'en-USCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)http://www.aliveworld.com/members/elishagoldstein/blog/archive/2008/08/06/maryoliver.aspxThu, 07 Aug 2008 03:17:00 GMTfd39d07e-ce3a-431b-9c25-fe2edef0007f:7421elishagoldstein<p><font face="times new roman,times" size="4">Mary Oliver makes us go hmmmm.....</font></p> <p><font face="times new roman,times" size="4">Read this one twice...feel free to click on &#39;tools&#39; and&nbsp;briefly write down your reaction in your journal. &nbsp;</font></p> <p><font face="times new roman,times" size="4">Who made the world?<br />Who made the swan, and the black bear? <br />Who made the grasshopper?<br />This grasshopper, I mean-the one who the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,<br />who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down -<br />who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.<br />Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.<br />Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.<br />I don&#39;t know exactly what a prayer is.<br />I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down<br />into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,<br />how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, <br />which is what I have been doing all day.<br />Tell me, what else should I have done?<br />Doesn&#39;t everything die at last, and too soon?<br />Tell me, what is it you plan to do<br />with your one wild and precious life?<br /><br />Mary Oliver, �The Summer Day�</font></p>