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Wendell Berry’s “The Real Work”

One of Kentucky’s finest, Wendell Berry, wrote this in his poem “The Real Work”: “It may be that when we no longer know what to do / we have come to our real work.” Indeed, a smooth life is often a boring life. This is part of a complete episode.

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