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Oliver on Attention as Devotion

10/27/2026
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Six words from a poet who paid attention for a living. Oliver on Attention as Devotion sits with Mary Oliver's closing line from her essay Upstream, attention is the beginning of devotion, tracing it from the teach-the-children passage through what attention really asks of us into one small daily practice.

Inside: where the line lives and who it was written for; what Oliver means by attention and why devotion follows it; and a closing practice, one neglected thing, five minutes a day, for one week. About eight minutes, a slow evening beside still water.

CHAPTERS
0:04 Where the River Starts
1:14 The Essay Called Upstream
2:22 Attention, Her Way
3:28 The Beginning of Devotion
4:56 One Thing, Daily
6:12 Devotion Begins Tonight
7:22 Keep One Line Close
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