A Peculiar Form of Prayer

Mary Oliver suggests that "pay[ing] attention," "kneel[ing] down in the grass,"  and being "idle and blessed" are a kind of prayer. 

For me, too. 

Sometimes the attention is hard.  Beautiful and hard: like life, when death, the mantis, embraces each of us and returns us to the earth from which we came.

And so I watched, and I paid attention.