July 13, 2025
We Are Members of Each Other - Wendell Berry
The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain’t in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don’t.
Wendell Berry, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership
There will be
a resurrection of the wild.
Already it stands in wait
at the pasture fences.
It is rising up
in the waste places of the cities
When the fools of the capitals
have devoured each other
in righteousness,
and the machines have eaten
the rest of us, then
there will be a second coming
of the trees. They will come
straggling over the fences
slowly, but soon enough.
From "The Window Poems" by Wendell Berry
Invitation: “…there will be a resurrection…”
More about Wendell Berry - an American Who Tells the Truth (by Robert Shetterly)
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Wendell Berry is a beloved farmer, poet and teacher. I learned of him when I lived in Kentucky before I moved to New Mexico.
"The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything." He often reminds us of our connections with each other and nature. I am invited by Wendell Berry to remember and to honor these connections.