whirlwind words of wisdom.

my life has been SO busy the last week with work that i'm just trying to remember to breathe and take things one day at a time. after monday, things should slow down and, until then, i'm surviving by making ridiculous amounts of post-it list notes in bed every night. i'll be back more regularly soon (i promise!), but for now i'll leave you with some words from wendell berry that struck me yesterday. i love love love this poet/farmer/philosopher/activist man. {he lives in kentucky. have i thought about making a stalker trip up to his place? of course!}

"the fact is that a man can be made an astronaut

much more quickly than he can be made a farmer,

for the astronaut is produced by training and the farmer by education.

training is a process of conditioning, an orderly and highly efficient

procedure by which a man learns a prescribed pattern of facts and functions.

education, on the other hand, is an obscure process by which a person's experience is brought into contact with his place and his history, a college can train a person in four years; it can barely begin his education in that time. a person's education begins before his birth in the making of disciplines, traditions, and attitudes of mind that he will inherit, and it continues until his death, under the slow, expensive, uneasy tutelage of his experience. the process that produces astronauts may produce soldiers and factory workers and clerks; it will never produce good farmers or good artists or good citizens or good parents."