Snow day at the Abel house! Green Man’s Grotto is chilly.
Is there a mechanical need for motorcycles to be revved or are these men who feel like their voices are not being heard?
“Why return-to-office mandates fail”
Remote work can be productive if managers are willing to adapt. Problem is, too many managers are unwilling to do so. (Can’t remember where I came across this article, so apologies if I’m not giving one of you credit.)
So, my daughter has an interest in doing some volunteer work before college–both in order to get some life experience and figure out what she’d like to do. Something like the Peace Corps. Does anyone know of good organizations or resources to find such organizations? Can be domestic or overseas.
Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter:
There can be places in this world, and in human hearts too, that are opposite to war. There is a kind of life that is opposite to war, so far as this world allows it to be.
Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter:
The living can’t quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can’t because they don’t. The light that shines in darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room [of love]. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.
… No big happiness came to me yet, but little happinesses did come, and they came from ordinary pleasures in ordinary things: the baby, sunlight, breezes, animals and birds, daily work, rest when I was tired, food, strands of fog in the hollows early in the morning, butterflies, flowers. The flowers didn’t have to be dahlias and roses either, but just the weeds blooming in the fields, the daisies and the yarrow. I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.
Our little pond is mostly frozen now, except where a little water flows. I wonder if Nessie is still there.
Finished reading Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry. 📚 This was his first novel but my edition is the revised 1985 paperback. He edited it so that it would fit in what would become the overarching history of the Port William membership. I think I’ll read Hannah Coulter next.
I’m disappointed that it’s too cold to be in my garage working on my weekend project but I’m going to console myself with a big breakfast for lunch and reading Wendell Berry this afternoon. I’ve nearly finished Nathan Coulter.