Good Afternoon Du Bois Community,
Hope you had a good week. It was nice to have a bit of early summer, and we hope your family enjoyed it.
We are now officially on Spring Vacation, and it is hard to believe the year has flown by this quickly. The poem “The Vacation” by Wendell Berry is about vacation, but it is even more about being present. Last week I wrote about treasuring little moments that are outsized in their impact. This week–a bit more of the same.
Whether you are traveling or staying home (personally, I will make it as far as downtown Great Barrington in my travels–and that’s it), the point of “The Vacation” is meaningful and important. No matter your plans, we wish your family good rest, good time together, and safe travels, whether your travels are over an ocean or to the grocery store.
Have a great break and be well,
Jake M.
“The Vacation” by Wendell Berry
Once there was a man who filmed his vacation.
He went flying down the river in his boat
with his video camera to his eye, making
a moving picture of the moving river
upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly
toward the end of his vacation. He showed
his vacation to his camera, which pictured it,
preserving it forever: the river, the trees,
the sky, the light, the bow of his rushing boat
behind which he stood with his camera
preserving his vacation even as he was having it
so that after he had had it he would still
have it. It would be there. With a flick
of a switch, there it would be. But he
would not be in it. He would never be in it.
