Your One Wild and Precious Life: Reflections on Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day”

A grasshopper, a summer field and one of the most famous questions in poetry. Why Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day” sits so close to my heart.
My Sixtieth Year: Stepping into the Circle of Elders and Crones

Awaken Her came to fruition in my 60th year. A reflection on becoming an elder and crone, and the Yeats poem that says it for me.