Currenly reading: What Are People For by Wendell Berry. I appreciate his steadfastness in wading into the truth with as few words as possible. I love short, strong sentences. What are we for as we inevitably find ourselves on the long path. The long path that doesn’t get shorter the faster we go. The long path that has always had the same end every single day. What are we for behind our computers and phones and cars?
I think Berry has some good answers. I also think that he has some perspectives that not very many of us can have. Not many of us can make our living as a writer, go back to our country upbringing, buy a farm to be a hobbyist farmer while magazines and journals and publishers keep giving us money for our thoughts.
Currently listening to: John Cougar. I listened to American Fool in its entirety, straight through, and man, it’s really good. Just a really good album.
Don’t have much more to write about. My mind is so preoccupied with other things. Big changes in our life. Hard to concentrate when I have time to concentrate; hard to write when I want to concentrate. Just a tough rhythm.
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