The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. - Wendell Berry

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the "pluralistic," displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.