REPOST: Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Maximize Our Aliveness – Brain Pickings

Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Maximize Our Aliveness – Brain Pickings— Read on www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/09/mary-oliver-blue-horses-fourth-sign-of-the-zodiac/RESPONSE: there is too much Mary Oliver has given to respond to. Her insight is nothing short of splendid.Maria Popova helps bring her work to life by selecting seemingly the precise pieces at serendipitous times - example above. I was reading it while the dog was barking and low behold, the next selection she pulls;

Complement the immeasurably wonderful Blue Horses with Oliver on what attention really means and what dogs teach us about the meaning of our human lives, 

One yes leads to another thanks to both of these gifted writers.