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June  19,  2012 Quote for Today

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling the field as in writing a poem."

Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery


Questions:  Do you have prejudices against particular jobs?

Do you value a job by the salary or the work or how much a person loves her or his job or what have you?

Have you done any farming or gardening or written any poetry lately?

Before you cut an apple, or a tomato or a banana, do you pause to think about how many hands have worked to get this apple, tomoato or banana to you?

Have you read the poems and writings of the farmer Wendell Berry? Here's a listing of 2 that are on my bookshelf:  Collected Poems, 1957-1982, North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, Eleventh Printing, 1999; A Timbered Choir, Counterpoint, Berkeley, 1998