Mary Oliver

Wild Geese
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Lisa wFirst to rec“Print it out. Frame it by your bedside. Read daily.”
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MRP“I first read this poem framed in the waiting room of the counseling center at my university in 2007. It took everything in me to walk through those doors and ask for help. Week after week, I’d read the poem to the point of memorization. I still go to therapy as a 37 year old and I still reference this poem as permission to just be part of the world.”
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Kottie Gaydos“This is the first one. The one we recite at bedtime”
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Mary Mcmillan“Contemporary art needs poetry. I love to sit by the river and watch the wild geese fly by. I am inspired as an individual and artist by the geese and the words of Mary Oliver.”
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