When "wild things" help bring peace

We don't know about you, but we've reached the point where we're afraid to watch or read the news AND we're afraid not to. This has been a tough week for the normal folks we know, but not nearly as tough as it's been for thousands of non-American children:

• those caught in the current regime's "zero tolerance" policy, and
• those other refugees, especially children, caught in conflicts throughout the world

We're severely disappointed at the Democrats lack of a coherent opposition to the regime's inhumane and irresponsible actions, especially in comparison to the harm done to our "national security" by foreign actors skewing the 2016 election.

This morning we were fortunate to get brief respite from the trials and tribulations of life under kleptocratic, authoritarian, wanna-be dictators. Shortly after sunrise, the "back yard" was visited by three whitetail deer does, one with fawn. As we watched them wander and sample food possibilities, we focused on a moment when it seemed theoretically possible that lions and lambs might be able to cohabit the same planet, if not lie down together. Here's a few glimpses.

two whitetail does, sans fawn

Photo by J. Harrington

doe and fawn

Photo by J. Harrington

fawn and doe and doe (look hard)

Photo by J. Harrington

It's way past time we (that's both the editorial and collective "we") paid much more attention to Wendell Berry.

The Peace of Wild Things

by Wendell Berry, Special Contributor

 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.

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