Mary Oliver Pillows
Description: I have rarely identified with and found comfort in the writings of a person in the way I do with the work of Mary Oliver. She reminds me not just to ground myself in my body, but also in the world. To look around and notice my environment and my relationship with the other creatures in that same environment. She connects me with a younger version of myself. The version who would wander through the woods, joyfully get lost, search out all the interesting and strange dried out plants each autumn with the hopes of making some kind of strange, sculptural masterpiece. The version who sat in a field, holding onto a notebook, trying to write down all the things she noticed around her. The small spider jumping in the grass. The birds swarming ...
Description: I want to live fully, joyfully and in the moment. I want to hold time and space for all the feelings and experiences and relationships with kind, creative, loving people. "Tell me what is you plant to do with your one wild & precious life?" - Mary Oliver it's not insignificant that I made this drawing while my life was very much in chaos, as I talked to my new partner on the phone, rediscovering a joy of drawing. We talked and drew and cultivated a new life.
Tell me what is you plant to do with your one wild & precious life, Mary Oliver Pillow
by FabulouslyFeminist
$25
Description: This time of year always reminds me of how transitory our lives and our bodies are. As the leaves change brilliant colors only to eventually fall, then crumple, I am learning to greet that old anxiety with a gentle hand. Yes, it all does change. Yes, none of this is permanent, and yes there is sadness and sweet beauty in that. . "I row my beautiful, temporary body through this water lily world." - Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver: I row my beautiful, temporary body through this water lily world Pillow
by FabulouslyFeminist
$25
Description: I have struggled for a few days to settle on what to write for this piece. What did I have to say about the words of Mary Oliver? This morning I looked out at the quiet park through my front window, and I thought about the strange and beautiful trajectory my life has taken. But why strange? I think that is what this line means to me. I want to be improbable. Improbable? Improbable when compared to my past self, my past lives, the limitations I accepted both from myself and from others. I want grace and joy and freedom. I want wings.
"I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings." - Mary Oliver Pillow
by FabulouslyFeminist
$25
Description: Mary Oliver: You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves
Mary Oliver: You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves Pillow
by FabulouslyFeminist
$25
Description: lately I have been reflecting on how a little over two years ago I would not have recognized my life as it is now. how strange it is to find myself here, and now. in some ways how strange to still be here at all. there is a mix of gratitude and privilege and wonder and beauty in all of that. . it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world - mary oliver {from her poem, Invitation}
Description: I have been thinking a lot about how I want to show up in 2025. How to honor my needs as a human, the needs of my family and to also be an engaged community member. Finding that balance is hard, but I'm seeking inspiration in the words of Mary Oliver: "May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the Universe, tiny but useful."
Mary Oliver, May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the Universe, tiny but useful Pillow
by FabulouslyFeminist
$25
