I wish more for you than health, happiness, and a wonderful Thanksgiving day. I wish for you, something better. I wish for you a life that is lived so real, so full of eager, earnest foolishness that you find yourself in that most, “delicious and important place”…
“Foolishness? No, It’s Not” By Mary Oliver
Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree. To do this I have to climb branch by branch and write down the numbers in a little book. So I suppose, from their point of view, it’s reasonable that my friends say: what foolishness! She’s got her head in the clouds again.
But it’s not. Of course I have to give up, but by then I’m half crazy with the wonder of it – the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise.
Happy Thanksgiving!
From your: head-in-the-clouds, butterfly chasing, leaf counting, weightlifting, gypsy souled, CrossFitting, alley cat
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