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| Plein air underpainting and sketch. |
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| My notes: the "Why?" (Gesture and value sketches) |
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| "Blessed" (11x14 acrylic on hardboard) Artist: Cindi Moynahan-Foreman |
"The Peace of Wild Things," by Wendell Berry."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."
Beautiful! Who is Wendell Berry?
ReplyDeleteHe is a farmer, poet who lives in Kentucky.
ReplyDeleteHis website says he "is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. A prolific author, he has written dozens of novels, short stories, poems, and essays."
I love his writing!!
http://www.wendellberrybooks.com/author.html
He has published more than 40 books.