22 November 2023

Do something that does not compute!

Some lines from Wendell Berry that are too good not to share:

So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it. . . .

Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.

From ‘The Mad Farmer Liberation Front’ (1973)

I particularly like the line about planting sequoias. It reminds me of the line often attributed to Martin Luther: ‘If I believed the world were to end tomorrow, I would still plant a tree today.’

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