Sunday Evening Sofa with Mary Oliver and Chaim Potok
On Attention, Astonishment, and the Ordinary
Welcome to the Sunday Evening Sofa - Two Quotes and One Question
(from the Small Stories about Big Things newsletter)
My hope? Maybe you can lean back onto your Sunday evening sofa with…
a bit more encouragement,
a bit more calm,
and a helpful thought or two sitting with your soul.
QUOTES
“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
- Mary Oliver
“As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.”
- Chaim Potok, The Chosen
QUESTION
What was the last thing that astonished you?
The cliffs of Morher in Ireland