Foolishness? No, It’s Not, #MaryOliver
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 #earthpraise.