Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

Mitzi and I read this doing dishes. Our first exposure to Wendell Berry, it was a treat. A story of returning to one's roots and having a relation to land and local life that is healthy and nurturing and a view of the toxicity of much of what people aspire to. There is a worship of creation that is based in wonder and awe and is not a worship of creatures. There is an opening here for God but not for a toxic religion. Jayber has a humility of life that is warm and winsome. He is a barber in a small town, in love with a married woman in town who is unaware of his love. Over many years he remains faithful to this love, never even telling her.