Maroon Bells Rosh Hashanah Day 2 - When I am Among the Trees

Rabbi David Segal of the Aspen Jewish Congregation reading Mary Oliver's poem "When I am Among the Trees" during Rosh Hashanah Second Day services (5772/2011) at Maroon Bells, with the Aspen Jewish Congregation. Full poem is included below.

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"When I am Among the Trees"

(Mary Oliver, from the collection Thirst)

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, "Stay awhile."
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, "It's simple," they say,
"and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine."

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