Even when you think you have your life all mapped out,

[surprises] happen that shape your destiny in ways you never imagined.

— Deepak Chopra

• All Right, Every Day Ain’t Going To Be The Best Day Of Your LifeSeptember 7, 2026
  All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days. — Wendell Berry The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by… Read more: All Right, Every Day Ain’t Going To Be The Best Day Of Your Life
• The Lord Gives Everything And Charges By Taking It BackSeptember 6, 2026
  The Lord gives everything and charges by taking it back. What a bargain. Like being young for a while… — Jack Gilbert from poem The Lost Hotels of Paris
• I’m A Writer More Than I Am A TalkerSeptember 5, 2026
  For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless. — Wendell Berry The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. — Wendell Berry I’m a writer more than I am a talker. — Wendell Berry
• For A Time I Rest In The Grace Of The World And Am FreeSeptember 4, 2026
  The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. — Wendell Berry I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am… Read more: For A Time I Rest In The Grace Of The World And Am Free
• There’s A Good Possibility That You Won’t Get What You Pray ForSeptember 3, 2026
  This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It… Read more: There’s A Good Possibility That You Won’t Get What You Pray For