Dec 27, 2025
“‘Go look under the leaves,’ it said, ‘for what is living there is long dead in your tongue.’ And it said, ‘Put your hands into the earth. Live close to the ground. Learn the darkness. Gather round you all the things that you love, name their names, prepare to lose them. It will be as if all you know were turned around within your body.’ And I went and put my hands into the ground, and they took root and grew into a season’s harvest. I looked behind the veil of the leaves, and heard voices that I knew had been dead in my tongue years before my birth. I learned the dark.”
Wendell Berry, "Song in a Year of Catastrophe"
