Finding my wood drake
I first read this poetry by Wendell Berry a couple of years ago, but today I decided to revisit his words The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. As night drew, I sat at my bedside window, hunched over with my head resting on my arms. I gazed out of the window to look for my wood drake but all I heard was honking cars and barking dogs. A jet was ready to take off at the nearby domestic airport and would make a tremendous swooshing sound over my head. I glanced at the skies to check if