Kalos Kairos // Beautiful Season : April 2013

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Wise Words

"If you want to live in a rose-covered cottage, then you have to be willing to get a little dirty and plant the damn things yourself."

-Co-worker of mine a few years ago.

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 rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of 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.

[Wendell Berry]