I have on my lap three books: Mary Oliver's "A Poetry Handbook" and "Rules for the Dance" and a collection of poems by Barbara Brooks, "The Catbird Sang".
I may be some time!
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. - George Sheehan