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[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Isn't Every Die at Last and Too Soon?

i brought my computer because i wanted you to hear it again. My daughter, who is now 21 and all grown up, was assign to memorize a summer day in sixth grade. And so she came home reciting this poem, and i felt really embodying itan. We actually played it in the show, ah, because it seemed to go so well with that entire discussion of prayer. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. But  I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass,. How to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blesset. Tell me, what else should i have done? Doesn't every

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