This video requires deeper listening.
Soothing, melodic, projecting fairness to the generally unseen.
Out Walking began even before 2022 and was recorded on an iPhone.
Long walks in upstate New York to connect to the Earth.
Deeper Listening began when I slowed things down to watch and listen closely.
Getting lost outside…I built an archive for anyone to get lost inside…
This is what every good library should aim for:
to find what you didn’t know you were looking for.
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
Wendell Berry. The Peace of Wild Things And Other Poems. 2018. Penguin.
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.
Copyright (c) 2012 by Wendell Berry, reproduced by permission of Counterpoint
Thanks to Gary Price and Sherry Miller-Hocking. The poems of Wendell Berry invite us to stop, to think, to see the world around us, and to savour what is good.
Here is the peace of wild things.
See: Art of the common-place: the agrarian essays of Wendell Berry
