A Tribute to Life Recommends: Mary Oliver / Dog Songs

Tucker the Goldendoodle

One of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, released a new collection yesterday.  Oliver is a master of describing the most delicate intricacies of nature, and in Dog Songs, she applies that genius to the human-canine connection.  One of my favorites so far is "How It Is With Us, And How It Is With Them," which follows

We become religious,
then we turn from it,
then we are in need and maybe we turn back.
We turn to making money,
then we turn to the moral life,
then we think about money again.
We meet wonderful people, but lose them
     in our busyness.
We're, as the saying goes, all over the place.
Steadfastness, it seems,
is more about dogs than about us.
One of the reasons we love them so much.