Wendell Berry is a well-known and much loved American writer and environmental activist. If you are thinking of learning more about agrarian living, moving away from technology towards a more simple lifestyle or just like poems like this one, then Berry's writing is a wonderful place to start.
Normally I don't use a whole poem like this one as Bitesize Inspiration but I will keep my comments brief. To me, the peace and hope that this poem radiates is palpable. Berry doesn't dismiss the harshness or despair that the world can hold - in fact, he embraces it as a given and finds a simple antidote that can be recreated by anyone who feels the same.
As I mentioned in Friday's post about the garden, there is something soul-nourishing about being with wild things, even in the more domesticated setting of a suburban garden. As someone who worries more than is necessary being able to put some space between the world and my thoughts is always a blessing. For me, being outdoors - at the beach, in the mountains, or even in the garden - I feel a perspective that is lacking when I am indoors or on a screen. I feel my smallness and I feel the world around me breathing, getting on with things, and simply being. Although we appear to be doing our best to undermine it, nature really does move to its own graceful rhythm.
Where is you favourite place to find solace in nature? Water? Mountains? Forests? Let me know in the comments below.
Thanks for taking the time to pop in today, I hope your Monday is going well.
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