I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
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 blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

from Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day"

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

I'm thinking of trademarking it

A few weekends ago when we were in WV for our extended birthday celebrations, Will and I were waiting in the car for Jamison and Will was (per usual) getting more and more impatient by the second.

I tried to distract him, get him to look around, play a little game of "I spy" (I just typed "I spay" which would be a totally different game to play), anything to distract him. Finally, I just gave up and told Will that Jamison would be back in a minute, a little impatiently.

To this, Will said emphatically, "But I don't like minutes. I like nows!"

This probably explains him better in eight words than I could in eight paragraphs.

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