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i think that sometimes the best thing that you can do is remind yourself that there are beaches. lakes, rivers, and ponds. there are forests. little woods and meadows. there are canyons. gullies and mountain cliffs. there are rainy days. dry spells and scorching blue skies. that the world turns. changes as much as it repeats. that feeling slow today won't stop tomorrow's high tide. won't make july's blackberries any less ripe

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"we live in an uncaring universe." sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess

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calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

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dreaming dreaming dreaming

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Mary Oliver, from “The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac”, Blue Horses

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Mary Oliver, from “A Meeting”, Truro Bear and Other Adventures : Poems and Essays

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i believe you can always get back to yourself. you can always soften into being again. no matter how long you might be stuck in a pattern of unhappiness, of being jaded, of feeling guarded from the world in some way. there is always a path back. give yourself a chance to find it.

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Evening walks must be the best part of spring

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save me hot shower

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yseul_pic

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me. me when a poem says something ive felt before

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kirsten sims / fernando pessoa

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girl with the nervous system of a prey animal

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go outside and sit in the sun, your problems won't disappear but you might gain a little hope