The Invitation to Pause, Even in Short Ways, to Take Time

"Can we, in this equinox, in this beginning of spring, in the midst of the great difficulties of our lives in this world," she asks. " can we pause and be present and take a step back and be witness to the loving awareness?" Mary oliver writes that when i am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the tan oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness, i would almost say they saved me."