In war, even the winner is a loser.
– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace: Economy and Pleasure p. 213
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We know from childhood that winning is fun. But we probably begin to grow up when we begin to sympathize with the loser.
– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace: Economy and Pleasure p. 213
Community, however, aspires toward stability. It strives to balance change with constancy. That is why community life places such high value on neighborly love, marital fidelity, local loyalty, the integrity and continuity of family life, respect for the old, and instruction of the young. And a vital community draws its life, so far as is possible, from local sources. It prefers to solve its problems, for example, by nonmonetary exchanges of help, not buying things. A community cannot survive under the rule of competition.
– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace: Economy and Pleasure p. 212
I can’t help but love this!
Just a little taste of what I’ve been up to for the last week. Pre-sunrise video shoots and going hard all day because that’s how we do at Northridge Church!
Acrocorinth
Corinth, Greece
Sunrise at Apollo’s Temple
Ancient Corinth, Greece
Cenchreae, Greece
The Acropolis
Athens, Greece
The good worker will not suppose that good work can be made properly answerable in haste, urgency, or even emergency. But the good worker knows too that after it is done work requires yet more time to prove its worth. One must stay to experience and study and understand the consequences – must understand them by living with them, and then correct them, if necessary, by longer living and more work.
– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace | People, Land, and Community p.187
Turkey Alwan Travels