Today's Poem

[Auburnwine]

Hey y'all, I've been out of town for a couple of weeks and am pleased to see that you have been bravely carrying on without me.

Since I have no new wine notes to add, I thought I would share one of my favorite poems.

THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS
- Wendell Berry

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.