one

 One month,

nine pounds,

and countless boxes later,

I am settled.

I am home.

 I was recently introduced to Mary Oliver (via Kelle at Enjoying the Small Things) and I adore her quotes & poetry.  I thought in honor of our first month in Alaska, I'd share with you some of my favorites.

"Instructions for living a life:

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it."

-Mary Oliver

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?"

-Mary Oliver

The Journey

"One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save."

-Mary Oliver

{stay tuned: tomorrow I will be posting pictures (!!!) of our home sweet home}