then you too are a dream which last night and the night before that and the years before that you were not. — Mary Oliver

Instructions for living a life:

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.

Two or three times in my life I discovered love.

Each time it seemed to solve everything.

Each time it solved a great many things

but not everything.

Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and

thoroughly, solved everything.

So every day

I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth

of the ideas of God,one of which was you.