wendell for wednesday

Celebrate Holy Week by getting outside and reading some of your Bible (says Sara via Wendell!)…

“I don’t think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a “hypaethral book,” such as Thoreau talked about – a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.”

Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry