🪞You Do Not Have To Be Good

Stella Dove sits with her back to a window, wearing a black roll-neck sweater and leather trousers, long silver-streaked hair framing a gentle smile. You Do Not Have To Be Good — a lyrical reflection on belonging, softness, and the permission to simply be.

🪞You Do Not Have To Be Good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

Mary Oliver

Wild Geese

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Sending love to all who feel like they could do with just a little extra.

You do not have to be good You have a place in the family of things.

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