You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

-Mary Oliver

Monday 7 May 2012

Recent revelations

I find I want to live in a place with an abundance of nature and trees. I find I want to have children. I find I want to let art flow through me. I find I want to learn how to sew. I find I want to live close to the earth, to grow things that are green and eat them, to make cherry preserves. I find that maybe, not now but soon, it is time to move again.