The bookcase latch sits a few feet from my desk, it is now part of the restored old bookcase in my study, which was used as a chicken coop at the first Bedlam Farm for many years. Sometimes, when the light hits my latch, I wonder at a world where a craftsman would take so much care to design and build such a beautiful latch. I have lived in houses without so much love and detail.

Have we given up too much for efficiency, is Wendell Berry correct when he talks about the ravages of economists and globalism, we sometimes forget what people are for. I love reading Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry,  I believe the difference between the two is that Mary Oliver always offers us hope and Wendell Berry does not.