The Dark Years Ahead

Many of my countrymen are celebrating the change in our government that is looming.  I am not. I am concerned for the environment and the health of the world and all of it's inhabitants. I find comfort in this passage...

THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS

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 and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

or 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.