Poem excerpted from the Barbara Kingsolver’s NYT article on Wendell Berry

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, by Wendell Berry

. . . As soon as the generals and the politicos

can predict the motions of your mind,

lose it. Leave it as a sign

to mark the false trail, the way

you didn’t go. Be like the fox

who makes more tracks than necessary,

some in the wrong direction.

Practice resurrection. . .”

“A great mentor gives us the confidence to look ahead to our own work while we still feel that gentle hand at our back, always there to help move us along”.   Barbara Kingsolver

The Good Decision’s Reflections on the Good Wisdom of Others

Wendell Berry will be missed, but his wise words remain as legacy. This writer comes away with the deeper instructions of Berry, the farmer and poet, and Kingsolver, a brilliant writer.  Be wise and wily like a fox, but with other humans also be a great, gentle, mentor. You know you may have encountered wisdom when the instruction sounds like a paradox yet feels like the truth.  That is why it is sometimes hard to distinguish fools from the holy ones. The great wealth of this age is we have sufficient fools to serve as models from which we can draw the contrast. Would it were that our political people were mentors instead of what they are.  Have a wonderful Sunday becoming foxy and wise all you present and future mentors.