Mid-week meditation
by chuckofish
“[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis – only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy.”
–Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays, “The Unsettling of America”
The wood engraving is by Clare Leighton – Scything, 1935
dual personalities 
Neat engraving and I like the quote, too. You are so high brow — I’ve just been reading a Helen MacInnes novel.
I do like Wendell Berry…