will not compute

I happened across a poem by Wendell Berry because of a newsletter delivered by Riverford Organic Farmers with our vegetables. The poem is called Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front and in it there is a line that I like very much:

So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute.

The whole poem is at https://www.context.org/iclib/ic30/berry/.

Here’s to doing things that do not compute.

Up next at night And for something different. Some scuba divers at night. Photo by Ian Baker. Taken in the Red Sea, January 2019 listening Tara Brach is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher based in Washington DC. I was listening to a podcast episode of hers last night called The

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