{"id":2921,"date":"2019-02-18T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:44:55","slug":"feb-18-when-we-no-longer-know-what-to-do-which-way-to-go-wendell-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2019\/02\/18\/feb-18-when-we-no-longer-know-what-to-do-which-way-to-go-wendell-berry\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 18 – – “when we no longer know what to do . . . which way to go” Wendell Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, \u00a0February 18<\/p>\n

Why, I wonder this morning, have I never posted one of Wendell Berry\u2019s poems? \u00a0 He has written great and supple poetry since, at least, the early 1960s, poems and novels and essays about the land and the place of humans in relationship with the land. \u00a0 Betsy Linehan, RSM, a friend and university trustee, sent me her favorite W. Berry poem. \u00a0 A fine beginning to this 2nd last week in February. \u00a0 It\u2019s brief; and, yes, it’s best to read it out loud with pauses.<\/p>\n

Our campus this morning shows off what a steady light snowfall can do for the land and streets and buildings if you give it 7 or 8 hours to work its magic.<\/p>\n

Have a blest day.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post – – \u00a0Wendell Berry<\/strong><\/p>\n

It may be that when we no longer know what to do
\nwe have come to our real work,<\/p>\n

and that when we no longer know which way to go
\nwe have come to our real journey.<\/p>\n

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.<\/p>\n

The impeded stream is the one that sings.<\/p>\n

Wendell Berry<\/p>\n

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Wendell Erdman Berry<\/strong>\u00a0(born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist,\u00a0environmental activist<\/a>,\u00a0cultural critic<\/a>, and farmer.\u00a0He is an elected member of the\u00a0Fellowship of Southern Writers<\/a>, a recipient of\u00a0The National Humanities Medal<\/a>, and the\u00a0Jefferson Lecturer<\/a>\u00a0for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of\u00a0The American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a>. Berry was named the recipient of the 2013\u00a0Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award<\/a>.\u00a0On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

On July 4, 1965, Berry, his wife, and his two children moved to a farm that he had purchased, Lane’s Landing, and began growing corn and small grains on what eventually became a homestead of about 117 acres (0.47\u00a0km).\u00a0They bought their first flock of seven Border Cheviot sheep in 1978.\u00a0Lane’s Landing is in\u00a0Henry County, Kentucky<\/a>\u00a0in north central Kentucky near\u00a0Port Royal<\/a>, and his parents’ birthplaces, and is on the western bank of the\u00a0Kentucky River<\/a>, not far from where it flows into the\u00a0Ohio River<\/a>. Berry has farmed, resided, and written at Lane’s Landing ever since. He has written about his early experiences on the land and about his decision to return to it in essays such as “The Long-Legged House” and “A Native Hill.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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