I was gifted this book by Wendell Berry and within the first chapters understood why this book and especially this character is so beloved.
This story offers profound insights from the vantage point of this man’s reflections and observations. One in particular stood out to me:
“The world doesn’t stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when I have thought I was in my story or in charge of it, I really have been only on the edge of it, carried along. Is this because we are in an eternal story that is happening partly in time?”
The humility that we are part of something bigger can be overwhelming and even scary. That the world carries on and moves forward even if we aren’t ready or don’t like the pace. I often find the therapeutic space to be one where things can slow down if even for a bit out of the week and we receive what we need to rejoin the world around us that needs us to partake and give what we can and our role in it.
