Thanks to your article (relayed by Maya C. Popa's substack), I discovered the work and writing of Linda Pastan. Encountering something beautiful, wonderful and astonishing today : I'm living this day as if it is my first :) Thanks a lot for letting a glimpse of beauty enter my life, going to read her as soon as possible !
"In this moment, grace, I think, takes a backseat to the certainty of judgment and the toll that stress takes on us." This is a poet who knows how to look at a plate and understand that it could be the start of a sphere. We all need new glasses sometimes...Thank you, Devin Kelly
Your comment about paid grocery shoppers brought me up short. I have never lived where that is "a thing". I have read about people making their living standing in line for hours (days?) to purchase show tickets for the wealthy so being paid for other chores should not surprise me. It doesn't, actually, surprise me and I suppose the housebound do (or did, I wonder if that aid is gone now too...) have shoppers to help them, but the sense I pulled from your comment was a frenetic movement, an unfeeling task being completed quickly for pay.
Such disparate worlds there are, all on the same planet, and of course, even within a small local area.
I will carry this First Day with me today. It is so much more expansive than Last Day, which I always felt required too much thought. 😕
Linda Pastan is one of my favourite poets. Thank you for reminding me why!
Thank you, reading your thoughts always gives me hope
Oh, this is the loveliest, and just what I needed today. Thank you 💕
Thanks to your article (relayed by Maya C. Popa's substack), I discovered the work and writing of Linda Pastan. Encountering something beautiful, wonderful and astonishing today : I'm living this day as if it is my first :) Thanks a lot for letting a glimpse of beauty enter my life, going to read her as soon as possible !
thank you so much, Delphine!
"In this moment, grace, I think, takes a backseat to the certainty of judgment and the toll that stress takes on us." This is a poet who knows how to look at a plate and understand that it could be the start of a sphere. We all need new glasses sometimes...Thank you, Devin Kelly
I love Pastan's poems.
Your comment about paid grocery shoppers brought me up short. I have never lived where that is "a thing". I have read about people making their living standing in line for hours (days?) to purchase show tickets for the wealthy so being paid for other chores should not surprise me. It doesn't, actually, surprise me and I suppose the housebound do (or did, I wonder if that aid is gone now too...) have shoppers to help them, but the sense I pulled from your comment was a frenetic movement, an unfeeling task being completed quickly for pay.
Such disparate worlds there are, all on the same planet, and of course, even within a small local area.
I will carry this First Day with me today. It is so much more expansive than Last Day, which I always felt required too much thought. 😕
You capture it without it knowing it is captured.