Only love, said Wendell Berry again and again, across his poems and texts. Only love frees us from holding the belief that we could own anything and remain free.
Wendell Berry, revered American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, and farmer.
August 5, 1934 - August 31, 2026.
Rest in Peace, sweet soul.
❤️🩹🕯️🕊️
The Roman Empire stood appalled:
It dropped the reins of peace and war
When that fierce virgin and her Star
Out of the fabulous darkness called.
-W. B. Yeats
Come September
the break of autumn
promise of goddesses
if you had turned around
if flowers had fallen at sunset
if drumbeats had sung the coming
it would make sense
for me to make
my words
public.
Wrote a few words (in advance of a full length paper) on the construction of 'religion' in the Essential Religious Practices debate in the SC, having been discussed in the Sabarimala and Hijab ban cases recently. atreyee.substack.com/p/secre…