Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of… - Mary Oliver

What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? Would would this would be like without dogs?

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased... what would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?

What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?

Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.

Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled — to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking

into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing — that the light is everything — that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and falling. And I do.

We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
What a time they have, these two
housed as they are in the same body.