Tell Me, What Is It You Plan to Do with Your One Wild & Precious May?

Day one of Mary Oliver May, a daily reflection diary & activity challenge with the contemplative poet and more muses

Devotions: this is the name of the final collection of Mary Oliver’s poetry, and as I write this letter to you all on this first day of May, I can’t think of a more apt word to center on as we start this month.

Devotion is a word of overdetermined meaning for me, as both a devout Mary Oliver reader and as someone raised in a religious, Catholic circle.…