<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The Future<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">For God’s sake, be done</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">with this jabber of “a better world.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">What blasphemy! No “futuristic”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">twit or child thereof ever</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">in embodied light will see</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">a better world than this, though they</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">foretell inevitably a worse.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">Do something! Go cut the weeds</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">beside the oblivious road. Pick up</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">the cans and bottles, old tires,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">and dead predictions. No future</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">can be stuffed into this presence</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">except by being dead. The day is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">clear and bright, and overhead</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">the sun not yet half finished</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: inherit; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; ">with his daily praise.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- Wendell Berry</span></div></body></html>