Tuesday Poem: A Life Spent Reading

There is no shortage of good days.
It is good lives that are hard to come by.

A life of good days lived in the senses
is not enough. The life of sensation
is the life of greed; it requires more
and more.

The life of the spirit
requires less and less; time is
ample and its passage sweet.
Who would call a day spent
reading a good day?

But a life spent reading
— that is a good life.

By: Annie Dillard
@Poetic Outlaws