It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work

Notes 27 August 2026 updated 27 August 2026 ~1 min

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Paragraph citing Wendell Berry, from his 1983 essay collection Standing by Words—specifically the essay 'Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms' My little robot friend says this is from Anne Lamott's Somehow: Thoughts on Love (2024) and that the Wendell Berry quotation comes from his 1983 essay collection Standing by Words, specifically the essay 'Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms'

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