When Despair Hits, Read Mary Oliver
In these perilous time, l often feel like I’m inhabiting the song, “Stop the World I Want to Get Off,” reeling from Iran’s debacle, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the deepening climate crisis, ICE’s sway and more. To soothe my spirits, a common practice I follow is to retrieve a Mary Olive poetry book from my library. Her poems [...]
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