Reading this thread made me cry. It's so much to take in what's happening to this precious planet. I didn't cry until I got to these Leonard Cohen lines: "We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky, And lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye."https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1073162770286292993 …
.@bethsawin piece explores what it means to love the world as we grapple with the climate emergency, and helps explain why Mary Oliver's poetry has been indispensable for me. Oliver's poems help us *notice* the world, and therefor, love it more deeply.https://twitter.com/bethsawin/status/1129007402324512768 …
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"'Attention is the beginning of devotion.' And, of course, this is so. The unnoticed can’t possibly be loved." "A world worthy of attachment exists outside ourselves, and the alternative is numbness and narcissism."
@FranklinFoer on Mary Oliverhttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/mary-olivers-poetry-captures-our-relationship-technology/589039/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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