There's a theme in Wendell Berry's work that I've avoided tackling head-on, because it's uncomfortable. But it appears consistently in his essays, and lately my avoidance has become an uncomfortable presence also, out here on my walks with the man. It raises questions about this whole project of mine. The theme is physical work. Necessary and unchanging for 99.9 percent of our two million year history, manual labor wasn't just a fact of life, it was THE fact of life. Ea