Mary Oliver

Sometimes words arrive at the exact moment you need them most. Today, I stumbled upon Mary Oliver’s poem “I Have Decided” — and it felt as though it was written for me, for this very season of my life.

Her lines are not just poetry, they are a reminder: to choose authenticity over fear, to live with a quiet courage, and to accept the truth of who we are without apology. Reading it, I felt something shift inside me — as if a heavy door finally opened.

I want to share this poem here, not only because it moved me, but because I believe it might move you too. Perhaps her words will reach you the way they reached me: deeply, gently, and with a kind of undeniable grace.

“I have decided to find myself a home in the mountains, somewhere high up where one learns to live peacefully in the cold and the silence. It's said that in such a place certain revelations may be discovered. That what the spirit reaches for may be eventually felt, if not exactly understood. Slowly, no doubt. I'm not talking about a vacation.

Of course at the same time I mean to stay exactly where I am.

Are you following me?”