“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” is the final line of Mary Oliver's poem, The Summer Day. The poem appears in her 1992 collection New and Selected Poems.
The poem is about living in the moment and believing that it's okay to start again each day. It suggests that we should rethink what a productive day looks like, and that it might be better to spend time getting to know something simple, like a grasshopper, instead of being tied to screens, email, and chores.
“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” is the final line of Mary Oliver's poem, The Summer Day. The poem appears in her 1992 collection New and Selected Poems.
The poem is about living in the moment and believing that it's okay to start again each day. It suggests that we should rethink what a productive day looks like, and that it might be better to spend time getting to know something simple, like a grasshopper, instead of being tied to screens, email, and chores.
Thank you for introducing me/us to this Gary. Beautifully articulated.
So many powerful takeaways from this piece. Thank you🙏🏼✨
“It’s not about running away from something, but running toward something—toward a deeper understanding of who we are and our place in the world.”
Came for an accounting of April’s NDE, left disappointed but hopeful for its inclusion in April’s’ memoir!
I’ll have to write about that soon 😊