I was a bride married to amazement

When it is over,
I want to say:
all my life I was a bride
married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking
the world in my arms.

~ Mary Oliver

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The hardest ground to plow was living fully without worry, not in the past gone on or future yet to come—but in the present hardpan now.

~ J. Drew Lanham in SPARROW ENVY