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“Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence – that is to wish to preserve all of its humble households and neighborhoods.”
― Wendell Berry, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
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I wrote a longer post about the power of the small actions of one person in the face of the big problems hovering over this world based on the words above from poet Wendell Berry but ended up trashing the whole thing.
It was just way too much… well, way too much.
I simply like the term Berry used: the scale of our competence.
Simply put: Don’t wait for big answers. Do what you can do where you are. And do it now.
Big things often begin from the actions of one single person doing what they can do where they are.
Don’t focus on the scale of the problem. Focus on the scale of your own competence, of what you can do in the here and now.
Then do it.
Amen. End of sermon.
Now leave, okay? Go do what you can.
Redtree Times 