Today or tomorrow, depending on your time zone, is the first quarter moon, time for another poem from Mary Oliver’s Twelve Moons. Today’s poem is Turtles. I think I mentioned, when first blogging about my plan to use this book as a lunar calendar in 2011, that some of the poems would inevitably not appeal to me, and this is one of those, so I won’t say anything more about it.
In an email to a friend yesterday I told him that I felt like I had a book report due. Lo and behold, Michelle brought home a package from the mail, a pair of books from a publisher of self reliance titles.
If you’ve followed the blog, you’ve seen occasional reviews of books that interest me in some way, usually because of how they relate to our lifestyle. I’d been approached by the publisher about the possibility of reviewing some of their titles. I agreed, after naming my terms, which I’ll lay out to you as well so you know where I’m coming from when I talk about these titles. Continue reading
