Currently reading HANNAH COULTER a novel by Wendell Berry. Part of his story about the citizens of Port William, Kentucky.

I come from Iowan folks, but this so reminds me of my Grammy and her life and farmland in Iowa.

"Oftentimes after it no longer matters whether things are clear or not, they become clear."

"The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, even about your children being gone, but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do it this: 'Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.' I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions."

Amen!
~Mad

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