Tuesday's Attention #77

Aging with Time

Aging with Time

In 1997, Mary Oliver was 60, and I was just entering the world. In that year, she wrote the poem, “Am I Not Among The Early Risers,” and the lines that are sticking with me this morning are as follows:

Here is an amazement—once I was twenty years old and in

Every motion of my body there was a delicious ease,

And in every motion of the green …