all that i am

"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's lives may be,

 I go and lie down where the wood drake rests 
 in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

 I come into the peace of wild things
 who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. 
 I come into the presence of still water.
 
 And I feel above me the day-blind stars
 waiting with their light. 
 For a time
 I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

— Wendell Berry
                       {thank you, kelly}