A review by chrisiant
The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership by Wendell Berry

4.0

More calm, thoughtful stories of the Port William membership. I think my favorite of the six was the older fellow going for a walk in the woods to mend a fence and communing with all the men who had gone before him on trips to mend this fence before, when he was a child with the elders, then when he had children with them and the generation above him, and now, having left the care of the fence to the generations below him but wanting to go check just in case. The description of a long walk in the woods in the body of an 80 year-old - looking carefully for each step, remembering what it was to have a body that responded easily to your brain and bounded along undaunted and realizing how different it is now - was just beautiful.
The pro-farming/agrarian agenda was a little more blatant here than in Jayber Crow. On to more Wendell!