6 August

Maria: The Woods Is The Door To The Temple She Could Be An Artist Without Me, But Not Without Nature

by Jon Katz

Last night, Maria was reading from Mary Oliver’s book Upstream to me just before bed.

When she read the following passage, I was struck by how closely it related to her and her life here. The woods are her sacred place, refuge, meditation, and truth.

I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me, the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” – Mary Olver, Upstream.

I interrupted her, I was struck by the passage.

It’s as if she wrote that about you, I said. You could not be an artist without the natural world. You could be an artist without me, I said,  but not without nature.

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