Perhaps you can relate to this: while I enjoy the holidays, I also am running low on the “zest and energy” that Mary Oliver describes in this essay. Her solution to this problem is to reconnect with familiar writers. Her book, which has been in my hands for thirty years, is one of my favorites because she reminds me of the importance of remaining “curious and in motion,” of marveling at what we see, of watching the stars at night “until daybreak, that none of the sky wonders of the glorious night within reach of my eyes might be lost.”
Oliver, Mary. “Four Companions with a Zest for Life” in Blue Pastures. Harcourt, Inc., 1991, p. 31.