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"One wild and precious life"

This poem calls us to the present; to savouring life.

The Summer Day, by Mary Oliver

...I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass...

Hear Mary Oliver read this wonderful poem at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16CL6bKVbJQ

Source: Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems: V1 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992)

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