Wendell Berry has died.

youtu.be/95VcefsgsfE?is=OWt_nirmvHlhidOE

so sad news for my life

Yes, indeed.

hero1

so sad news for my life

Any particular reason specific to you?

RIP

Sorry but I have never heard of him or her

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/01/wendell-berry-us-author-dead

I thought more of us would have discovered him in the 1970s.

'From dust you came and to dust you shall return '.
RIP Wendell Berry.

He wrote one of my favourite poems -and one I turn to most often these days. “The Peace of Wild Things”.

Yes, a beautiful poem, Greyduster a favourite of mine too.

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Thank you for sharing this.

Charleygirl5

Sorry but I have never heard of him or her

Me neither Charliegirl never came across him

RIP Wendell Berry
Thankyou NotSpaghetti for this news.
'The Peace of Wild Things' is one of my very favourite poems and means so much.
I shall recite it in my book group next week in honour of Wendell Berry.