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Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

Mary Oliver
Morning, Kindness, Watches
FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Nov 12, 2016

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

Mary Oliver
Kindness, Believe, Singing
Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.43, Beacon Press

Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light – good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

Mary Oliver
Morning, Stars, Kindness
Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.3, Beacon Press

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

Mary Oliver
Kindness, Believe, Mischief
Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.43, Beacon Press

Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.

Mary Oliver
Kindness, Thinking, Light

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