What is it from which not even the nervous voice of ambition can shake you? I hope this poem gives you permission to take the wrists of idleness this week and enjoy that which allows you to be, and to be free from the need to produce, perform, or purchase.Bonus Black Oak content: Yosemite Nature Notes 17: Black Oaks

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This poem comes from Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, p. 253.

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