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Christian Z's avatar

Thanks Fern, for your beautiful comment in this time of crisis. It conjures images of the calm before the storm.

The battle lines are now clearly drawn. A move must be made well before the midterms or the GOP wins by default if they can keep control of America’s mob mentality with the drumbeat of TFG’s grievance.

We are at an inflection point on which the characterization of the worlds societies for many generations to come now hinges. In the stillness we wait for the butterfly’s wingbeat to direct the tiniest of air currents to give direction to the hurricane to come.

I weep.

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Barbara Mullen's avatar

The Peace of Wild Things

by Wendell Berry

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.

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Robin O.'s avatar

Barbara, for me this poem gave me a moment’s respite from our political morass. Thank you!

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daria (MID)'s avatar

Wendell Berry is one of my favorite poets. Thank you.

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FERN MCBRIDE (NYC)'s avatar

Thank you, Barbara, for this flight into the wild with every day life and freedom mingled in the space.

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Pamsy's avatar

This has always been one of my favorite poems. Thank you.

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FERN MCBRIDE (NYC)'s avatar

'In the stillness we wait for the butterfly’s wingbeat to direct the tiniest of air currents to give direction to the hurricane to come.' Thank you, Christian.

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Carol Allred's avatar

I, too, am weeping.

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