[Jacob-list] Saturday morning musing

[Cathy Robinson]

Beautiful, Kathey.  Thanks for sharing with all of us.

Cathy
Perfect Spot Farm


Katherine Williamson wrote:

> Thought this was appropriate for an early Satruday morning.

>  

> Kathey

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> /XI.

> by Wendell Berry

> Though he was ill and in pain,

> in disobedience to the instruction he

> would have received if he had asked,

> the old man got up from his bed,

> dressed, and went to the barn.

> The bare branches of winter had emerged

> through the last leaf-colors of fall,

> the loveliest of all, browns and yellows

> delicate and nameless in the gray light

> and the sifting rain. He put feed

> in the troughs for eighteen ewe lambs,

> sent the dog for them, and she

> brought them. They came eager

> to their feed, and he who felt

> their hunger was by their feeding

> eased. From no place in the time

> of present places, within no boundary

> nameable in human thought,

> they had gathered once again,

> the shepherd, his sheep, and his dog

> with all the known and the unknown

> round about to the heavens' limit.

> Was this his stubbornness or bravado?

> No. Only an ordinary act

> of profoundest intimacy in a day

> that might have been better. Still

> the world persisted in its beauty,

> he in his gratitude, and for this

> he had most earnestly prayed. /

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