Fear, Fledging, Flying
Fear, Fledging, Flying — this trilogy occurred to me as I was watching the “teen-age” Great Blue Herons in the colony just outside our window. What incredible bodies they have! To think they grow from an egg to all but full-sized in a couple of months! I don’t know if herons feel fear. But when...
Failing and Flying
This is not my favorite poem, it’s not a philosophy that inspires me, or fills me with gratitude. (I’m more a Mary Oliver kinda gal :-)) And still, this spare, clear poem by Jack Gilbert, Failing and Flying, with its directness and lack of nostalgia, provocative and pertinent, offers an invitation to see the world and our challenges in...
