Wendell Berry

“His writing is such an invitation to aliveness, always.”

“RIP Wendell Berry, one of the great contemporary writers of our time and an incredible poet. Check out Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front from my earlier recs, a poem that has just occupied my mind in the last few months. I have been slowly working my way through his ouvre. Highly recommend.”

““When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.””