98.

[there is another kind of seeing that involves a letting go. -a. dillard]

from what are people for? by Wendell Berry

IV.

Good work finds the way between pride and despair.

It graces with health. it heals with grace.

It preserves the given so that it remains a gift.

By it, we lose loneliness:

we clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us;

we enter the little circle of each other's arms,

and the larger circle of lovers whose hands are joined in a dance,

and the larger circle of all creatures, passing in and out of life,

who move also in a dance, to a music so subtle and vast that no

ear hears it except in fragments.