
Ordinary life



The world is full of magic things
patiently waiting for our senses to get sharper
wb Yeats
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It is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
Mary Oliver
photo sharon mollerus
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I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular
but because it never forgot what it could do
Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous
photo tony hisgett
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion.
This is it.
Jon Kabat Zinn
photo thhe at english wikipedia

We are endlessly offered into life: all time is ours.
And what any one of us might be worth,
death alone knows – and does not tell.
Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, II, 24