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Devotions

★★★★★  book

Devotions

The collected poems of Mary Oliver, a woman who devoted her life to meticulous attention upon geese, ponds and mornings. ‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ Allow it to inhabit your nightstand.

what it left me with

Attention constitutes the genesis of devotion. Regard the quotidian with sufficient intensity and it undergoes apotheosis.

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