“To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd.” GivingMindLittlesBookWishWalksGriefHalfTreeSadnessMoonSpeechOrdinaryShadowBillsNeighborCuriousOddSurprisingWetOrdinary LifeTelescopesMicroscopesTwigs Author:Marianne Boruch
“Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.” FeelingsWalksConditionsDangerousJudgingOrdinaryWeakStriveSaintWalk By Faith Author:Thomas Brooks
“Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.” PeopleWorldTwoWalksPathBalanceCitizensOrdinaryMedicineTwo WorldsOrdinary World Book:Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook Source: Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook
“Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot.” WantTryingIdeasChoicesLeftHoursDecisionWalksFeetOffersOrdinaryCornersInvisibleWakingOverlookedOur ChoicesOpulenceActual Life Author:Jane Hirshfield
“In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.” PeopleWalksOrdinaryExtraordinaryAccomplishOrdinary PeopleExtraordinary ThingsWalks Of Life Author:Jim Valvano