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'The Peace of Wild Things' by Wendell Berry- The Perfect Poetic Balm For Lockdown

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‘The Peace of Wild Things’ by Wendell Berry- The Perfect Poetic Balm for Lockdown Tuesday, June 7th 2020 Hey world! How are you all doing? I hope you are managing to stay sane in these bizarre and stressful times we find ourselves in. A lot (and I mean a lot) has happened since I last posted on this blog. My life, and most of the people’s lives who are reading this has been turned upside down in a matter of months. The world has been brought to it's knees by a pandemic thanks to Coronavirus, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across the world and has forced governments to enforce strict lockdown measures to try to prevent the spread of the virus. This means that people have not been able to go out of the house for any other reason than to get food and medicine. People haven’t been able to go to school, work, shops, meet friends or family, and we are all fed up it. Here in the UK, we have been in lock down since March 23, which is seventy-six days, w...