09/02/2026
🌿 Remembering Wendell Berry (1934–2026)
It saddens me to say that Wendell Berry has walked on.
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work,
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.”
— Wendell Berry, Poetry and Marriage (1983)
Berry spent his life teaching us that bewilderment is not a collapse but a beginning — that the moment we lose our bearings is often the moment we finally become honest, attentive, and awake. Farmer, poet, neighbor to the land, he showed that gentleness is strength, that community is a sacred practice, and that the earth is a teacher if we will listen.
His passing feels like the quieting of a steady voice, one that kept calling us back to place, to responsibility, to love.
May his words continue to guide us into our real work, and our real journey.
🤟 Royce
