Ever feel like our 21st century living distances us from what really matters in life? Wordsworth gives voice to that very concern, that our human preoccupations, especially economic ones, keep us from the direct experience of a world that is alive with a Divine Anima. For the pleasures of wealth we trade away the joy of sublime beauty that the natural world offers us.

The world is too much with us, by William Wordsworth

Our lives are too busy, distracted and dissatisfying. Art can jolt us back to the moment, to the simple joy of living. Poetry especially awakens my “mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us.” Here I share with the universe those poems that for me best peel away “the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude,” pointing a way back to the life more abundant.

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The world is too much with us, by William Wordsworth

The world is too much with us, by William Wordsworth