I love how Mary Oliver is a woman of few words. Her life didn’t require many words, and when she used them it was in poems and prose, not spoken. I often do the same, but my life is one among many people, and talking story is a large part of it. So it is that I am often a “noisy” Old anonemoose monk.
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MS. TIPPETT: Have your dogs and your love of your dogs and life with dogs infused your theology? Or is that too lofty a question?
MS. OLIVER: Well, Rilke wrote a poem — some friend of mine did a painting of it, of just a picture of a dog. And the quote is, “The soul for which there is no heaven.” Well, no thank you. I mean, there are going to be trees in paradise, as we’re going to have fun imagining it, whether it exists or not. Dogs are certainly going to be there. Poor little burros and donkeys, after all the work they’ve done in the world. Good heavens, yes.
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I love how Mary Oliver is a woman of few words. Her life didn’t require many words, and when she used them it was in poems and prose, not spoken. I often do the same, but my life is one among many people, and talking story is a large part of it. So it is that I am often a “noisy” Old anonemoose monk.
};-) ❤️
MS. TIPPETT: Have your dogs and your love of your dogs and life with dogs infused your theology? Or is that too lofty a question?
MS. OLIVER: Well, Rilke wrote a poem — some friend of mine did a painting of it, of just a picture of a dog. And the quote is, “The soul for which there is no heaven.” Well, no thank you. I mean, there are going to be trees in paradise, as we’re going to have fun imagining it, whether it exists or not. Dogs are certainly going to be there. Poor little burros and donkeys, after all the work they’ve done in the world. Good heavens, yes.
MS. TIPPETT: [laughs] Right.