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The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor

A Native Hill
XII. At Peace (excerpt)
music by Gavin Bryars
words by Wendell Berry

"A Native Hill" is composed as a gift for The Crossing
dedicated to Cassia Bryars-Rockey
In memoriam Julian Rockey

animation by Will Kim (https://www.willkim.net/)
based on the album artwork and dog by Steven Bradshaw
video produced by Kevin Vondrak

from the studio recording "A Native Hill" on Navona Records
digital release April 9, 2021
audio by Paul Vazquez of Digital Mission Audio Services

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I have been walking in the woods, and have lain down on the ground to rest... And now a leaf, spiralling down in wild flight, lands on my shirt... At first I am bemused and mystified by the coincidence - that the leaf should have been so hung, weighted and shaped, so ready to fall, so nudged loose and slanted by the breeze, as to fall where I, by the same delicacy of circumstance, happen to be lying...

And suddenly I apprehend in it the dark proposal of the ground. Under the fallen leaf my breastbone burns with imminent decay. Other leaves fall. My body begins its long shudder into humus. I feel my substance escape me, carried into the mold by beetles and worms. Days, winds, seasons pass over me as I sink under the leaves. For a time only sight is left me, a passive awareness of the sky overhead, birds crossing, the mazed interreaching of the treetops, the leaves falling - and then that, too, sinks away. It is acceptable to me, and I am at peace.

When I move to go, it is as though I rise up out of the world.

–from the essay A Native Hill (1968).
© 2002 by Wendell Berry, from The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint Press.