"he was trying to show me the shape of his life,
and what might become the shape of it."
wendell berry
"He was seeing the time to come as a possibility, and as a life that he loved. And though maybe neither of us fully understood it, he made me love it. It wasn't as though I was being swept away by some irresistible emotion.
It was just... the thought of resistance never entered my mind. When I imagined him entering the life he saw, I imagined myself entering it too. It was a possibility that belonged to both of us.
It is entirely clear to me now. We were coming together into the presence of something good that was possible in this world. And it just seemed that, as we waited together for the coming of this life, it had become wrong to sit apart." Wendell Berry, from Hannah Coulter
Happy Monday!
and what might become the shape of it."
wendell berry
Happy Monday!