--- poet Mary Oliver, from "Sometimes" quoted Geraldine Brooks in Memorial Days, mentioned in Karen Campbell's review, A novelist embraces solitude and nature as antidotes to loss, CSMonitor, 4 Feb 2025
Excerpt from the poem (italics in original)
4.
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Another wonderful excerpt from the same poem
I don’t know what God is.
I don’t know what death is.
But I believe they have between them
some fervent and necessary arrangement.
