Day 096f: Passing through Pereje … (July 19, 2019)
I always enjoyed passing through smaller villages like Pereje – places where the warmth of community was easily palpable, and where residents so obviously worked to make their Home a place of peace & beauty …
“The real name of our connection to this everywhere different and differently named Earth is ‘Work.’ And we are connected by our Work even to the places where we don’t actually work, for the simple reason that all places are indeed connected. It must be clear by now that none of us can exempt a single place from our ruin of another, and so should strive to ruin nothing & nowhere. At the same time the name of our proper connection to the earth is ‘Good Work,’ for the same involves the giving of honor and the elevation of beauty and the enhancement of harmony – all things that are in truth innately Good. Good Work is that which honors the source of its materials, and the place where it is done, and the art by which it is done;. Good Work honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing. Good Work is always modestly scaled, for it cannot ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between the same, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not every effect of any effort can be concretely known. Good Work can be defined only in particularity, for it must be defined a little differently for every one of the places and every one of the workers on the Earth. And yet one thing remains a constant – our Good Work must ever be done.” ~ inspired by Wendell Berry
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