Admittedly, I should have posted this yesterday to allow you all the time to Sabbath either on Saturday or Sunday with this Wendell Berry wafer. But as these days are full with life and activity, this post had to wait until now. And yet, the timelessness of Berry’s wisdom about “how to be alive” ever rings true and warrants a full week’s pondering. Don’t let the brevity of the poem deceive you; it is rich in its challenge to live, especially in a world ever looking for life in all the wrong places.
Sabbath Poem VI (2001) by Wendell Berry
The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worm hills tell, and some paintings of Paul Cézanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.
“VI” by Wendell Berry from This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems. © Counterpoint, 2013: pg. 222.
the deepening ground 
Also, I was going to get some “work” done today but I realized that his “New Collected Poems” book is available to borrow from my library on the Kindle. Sooooo….
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I love it! I hope to get my post up here shortly but have to leave for a concert, so it may be a tomorrow thing if I can’t squeeze it in.
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I need to find some books by Wendell Berry. Do you have any recommendations?
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For his short stories, I like Fidelity. A lot of people love Jayber Crow. I started listening to it on car rides but got sidetracked. I have The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (1999) and This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems. Both are great collections and the first has some of the best Mad Farmer poems. Hope that helps!
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Nice! Thanks for the recommendations I will have to check them out 🙂
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