Bass called to mind a poem by Wendell Berry, one I had read years ago, then lost for a time, but recovered in The Bible Workbench<\/em> materials for November 4th: “The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union.”\u00c2\u00a0 Through the mad farmer, the poet calls all who will hear to come away from “the union of work and debt, work and despair; from the wage-slavery of the helplessly well-employed,” from the union of self-gratification and self-annihilation.”\u00c2\u00a0 From all of it,\u00c2\u00a0“secede into care for one another, and for the good gifts of Heaven and Earth.”\u00c2\u00a0 In this week of Thanksgiving, he calls us to “come into the life of the body, the one body granted to you in all the history of time.”\u00c2\u00a0 Come into the body’s economy,\u00c2\u00a0“the daily work, and its replenishment at mealtimes and at night.\u00c2\u00a0 Come into the body’s thanksgiving, when it knows and acknowledges itself a living soul.”<\/p>\n To all our readers, to all who seek to teach well, and all who are hungry to learn – – may you be at home in your body, come into its thanksgiving, love and acknowledge it as a living soul, as you celebrate the festival of Thanksgiving with family and friends this year.<\/p>\n In many ways my native language has always been dance.\u00c2\u00a0 I moved stories before I told them in words, heard music most clearly when\u00c2\u00a0it flowed through my body and out again into the waiting space.\u00c2\u00a0 In secret my deepest prayers … Continue reading ![\"judybanner1.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/judybanner1.jpg\")
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