{"id":4001,"date":"2024-11-20T12:16:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T12:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2024-11-20T16:43:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T16:43:04","slug":"the-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/?p=4001","title":{"rendered":"The Peace of Wild Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Peace of Wild Things<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When despair for the world grows in me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and I wake in the night at the least sound<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in fear of what my life and my children&#8217;s lives may be,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I go and lie down where the wood drake <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>rests in his beauty on the water, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and the great heron feeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I come into the peace of wild things<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>who do not tax their lives with forethought<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of grief. I come into the presence of still water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I feel above me the day-blind stars<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>waiting with their light. For a time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> by Wendell Berry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wendell_Berry\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wendell_Berry\">More on Wendell Berry on Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peace of Wild Things 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&#8217;s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53QCd-12x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}