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I go by a field where once
I cultivated a few poor crops.
It is now covered with young trees,
for the forest that belongs here
has come back and reclaimed its own.
And I think of all the effort
I have wasted and all the time,
and of how much joy I took
in that failed work and how much
it taught me. For in so failing
I learned something of my place,
something of myself, and now
I welcome back the trees.
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~ Wendell Berry
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The heart knows
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The specific forms that love take in our lives arise and pass in time, for
this is the way of form. Time is the great dissolver. But love itself is
that w...
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