“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…”
In the second issue of “In Pursuit of the Sublime,” a poetry project by The Land West of Long Mountain, we read Mary Oliver’s celebrated poem “The Journey” for the fierce beauty of its language and the profound power of its insight. Both wise and inspiring, but never coddling, “The Journey” is a poem that can help guide us all, both along the roads of the world and through the greater journey of life. The poem is presented alongside photography from Joseph’s own travels and journeys in Asia.