Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing that makes water,
and nobody knows what that is.

–D. H. Lawrence



Monday, September 27, 2021

the peace of wild things

 






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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.


—Wendell Berry




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