A Writer's Moment: Caring For Our 'Conditional Gifts'

A Writer's Moment: Caring For Our 'Conditional Gifts':   “There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and...

Caring For Our 'Conditional Gifts'

 

“There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.” – Wendell Berry

Berry, born in Kentucky in August of 1934, is a novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.  Recipient of The National Humanities Medal and a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the first living writer to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.

In reading Berry’s essays, I also found the following quote, which I thought seemed like good descriptive prose for my “off the beaten path” photo (below) from near Boulder, CO.  

“Always … when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread.  Wondering, what might await me there?” 

                Like the creation of a writer’s moment.

 

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