Last week I participated in a workshop titled Dreaming Big in 2024, that led to me gluing favorite quotes and images on a piece of blue posterboard and committing to early mornings in my studio again. Hello, January.
The facilitator opened the session with this poem by Mary Oliver, one I’d never read before. Like many of Oliver’s poems, it offers an instruction, one ideally suited for the turn of a calendar.
I hope you’ll find yourself drinking with gusto from that metaphorical pond this year. And I hope at least once that you’ll refer to yourself as a “darling citizen” too.
“the past is the past,
and the present is what your life is”
