Status Updates From Wild Gratitude

I'm wrecked.

Edward Hirsch has left me emotionally wrung dry again. How is this man reallllllllll

I've not updated my favorite moments from this book so far bc of life being life, but I NEED to digitally archive the moment I came across the poem "Fast Break." I read it during the last day of March during my basketball mania phase & it felt like a surreal moment when the universe SEES you and lets you know it loves you. A little wink. There's even a PBS special reciting it w/ Shaq, Pau Gasol, and Edward Hirsch :')

[…] the summer nights were immense—
Clear as a country lake, pure, bottomless.
The stars were like giant kites, casting loose.…