A House Named "Gratitude"

A House Named "Gratitude" Looking for a chance to get away and relax in nature -- within an hour of Chicago, easily accessible by train? Such gifts, bestowed,
can’t be repeated.

This is the perfect place to get some writing done, and then enjoy a conversation over a meal. The place I want to get back to
is where
in the pinewoods
in the moments between
the darkness

and first light
two deer
came walking down the hill
and when they saw me

they said to each other, okay,
this one is okay,
let’s see who she is
and why she is sitting

on the ground like that,
so quiet, as if
a

sleep, or in a dream,
but, anyway, harmless;

and so they came
on their slender legs
and gazed upon me
not unlike the way

I go out to the dunes and look
and look and look
into the faces of the flowers;
and then one of them leaned forward

and nuzzled my hand, and what can my life
bring to me that could exceed
that brief moment? For twenty years

I have gone every day to the same woods,
not waiting, exactly, just lingering. If you want to talk about this
come to visit. I live in the house
near the corner, which I have named
Gratitude.

~ Mary Oliver

Address

Highland Avenue
Elgin, IL
60124

Telephone

(414) 759-4366

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