Mojca Jerman

“I would love to live like a river flows,
carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
― John O'Donohue

“I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
― Gustav Mahler

“In Our Woods, Sometimes a Rare Music

Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing through.
His voice is deep,
then he lifts it until it seems
to fall from the sky.
I am thrilled.
I am grateful.

Then, by the end of morning,
he's gone, nothing but silence
out of the tree
where he rested for a night.
And this I find acceptable.
Not enough is a poor life.
But too much is, well, too much.
Imagine Verdi or Mahler
every day, all day.
It would exhaust anyone.”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems