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Oct 31, 2021

"And we pray, not

for new earth or heaven, but to be

quiet in heart, and in eye

clear. What we need is here." --Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry on Hope & Place

"It is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow old,

for hope must not depend on feeling good

and there is the dream of loneliness at absolute midnight.

You also have withdrawn belief in the present reality

of the future, which surely will surprise us,

and hope is harder when it cannot come by prediction

any more than by wishing. But stop dithering.

The young ask the old to hope. What will you tell them?

Tell them at least what you say to yourself."

Wendell Berry explores what it means to belong to a place in this powerful poem.