The Peace of Wild Things

By Wendell Berry
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, “The Peace of Wild Things” from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Copyright © 1998. Published and reprinted by arrangement with Counterpoint Press.

Source: Collected Poems 1957-1982 (Counterpoint Press, 1985)

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“You Don’t Own Me”

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"When a seven-foot yellow-feathered bird who is subject to depressions attempts to seat himself upon the letter “h” and fails, it is no longer simply an event in children’s television, or even in the media. It is part of the intellectual history of a generation, who are already in important ways the children of “Sesame Street”…. Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch “Sesame Street” do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it. Children who watch it frequently do better than children who watch it rarely. Children who begin to watch it at the age of three learn more rapidly than children who begin at four…."

From The New Yorker’s archive, Renata Adler writes in defense of Big Bird and children’s programming in 1972: Read more. (via newyorker)

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eriebasin: 1890s Victorian 3.95ctw Old Mine & European Cut Diamond Crossover Bracelet, 14K Gold, $8350I’ve enjoyed having this beauty around for the past few months.  I’ve resisted photographing it for that reason, but also because a photo can’t do it justice. It’s hard to convey how impressive it is, except that most people who see it in the shop assume it’s fake. It’s also just an incredibly elegant and simple design. The Victorian crossover bracelet has always been one of my favorite late 19th century designs. Studded in diamonds it’s even better.  

eriebasin:

1890s Victorian 3.95ctw Old Mine & European Cut Diamond Crossover Bracelet, 14K Gold, $8350

I’ve enjoyed having this beauty around for the past few months.  I’ve resisted photographing it for that reason, but also because a photo can’t do it justice. It’s hard to convey how impressive it is, except that most people who see it in the shop assume it’s fake. It’s also just an incredibly elegant and simple design. The Victorian crossover bracelet has always been one of my favorite late 19th century designs. Studded in diamonds it’s even better.  

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motherjones: salon: “He was the first man I’d met who wasn’t afraid of me.”-Hillary Clinton, “When Bill Met Hillary” That? That’s a picture, right there, is what that is.

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salon:

“He was the first man I’d met who wasn’t afraid of me.”

-Hillary Clinton, “When Bill Met Hillary”

That? That’s a picture, right there, is what that is.

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