Monday, November 27, 2017

WORLD NEWS and FEELINGS



Bali Volcano threatening eruption,

The Pope in Mayanmar has to walk a thin line,

Koch brothers backed deal buys Time Magazine,

Papua New Guinea authorities have moved in to evict refugees from a former Australia-run detention center,

Scientists are warning that Lake Victoria, Africa's largest freshwater lake, is under threat of dying.

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I'm sick of accumulated disasters and blatant stupidity in the news and sick of this old body being sick and tired but:


As for life, I’m humbled,

I’m without words

sufficient to say


how it has been hard as flint,

and soft as a spring pond,

both of these

and over and over


Read the rest of this wonderful poem by Mary Oliver:

5 comments:

grace Forrest~Maestas said...

I love you Michelle

alsokaizen said...

The poem is new to me thank you for the introduction :) I hope you feel better soon.

Valerianna said...

Yes, all of it - overwhelming, complex, simple, beautiful, ugly - LIFE! Blessings of feeling better to you

(nice music :)

Anonymous said...

and today's news is even worse. take good care. we need each other.

jude said...

it's what we got to work with.