“When we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work,
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded spring is the one that sings.”
-Wendell Berry, Standing by Words: Essays
[The daily quotes from various authors this week were used in a dear book I received from its author, Ann Hisle: My House Burned Down and Now I Can See the Stars: Reflections on Losing and Finding (Dover, 2015). –Trish Stefanik]