A useful email message

I get way too many emails a week.

Yet, perhaps as a manifestation of some hitherto unknown form of OCD, i delete almost none of them, and, except for the most obvious spam, try to find time to not only scan the subject headers, but to read most of them.

Today's inbox contained a small gift, the words of a writer and thinker with whom i never had more than a passing acquaintance, Mr. Wendell Berry.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another
pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

Unpack that thought for a bit.

A people who are entirely lacking in economic self-determination,
either personal or local, and who are therefore entirely passive in
dealing with the suppliers of all their goods and services, including
political goods and services, cannot be governed democratically--or
not for long.

Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky, a poet of personal responsibility.

Good to meet you.