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wendell for wednesday
How to Be a Poet BY WENDELL BERRY (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more…
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wendell for wednesday
A perfect Wendell for Wednesday to be read at your Thanksgiving table this weekend: “The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People…
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wendell for wednesday
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wendell for wednesday
Sabbaths – 1993, I No, no, there is no going back. Less and less you are that possibility you were. More and more you have become those lives and deaths…
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wendell for wednesday
From Wendell’s classic, The Unsettling of America: The first principle of the exploitive mind is to divide and conquer. And surely there has never been a people more ominously and painfully divided…
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wendell for wednesday
“But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time…of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over…
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wendell for wednesday
“If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves…If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and…
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wendell for wednesday
“Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in justice or in affirmation of rights or in defense of peace do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.” Wendell…
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wendell for wednesday
From Hannah Coulter, a favorite: You think you will never forget any of this, you will remember it always just the way it was. But you can’t remember it the way…
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wendell for wednesday
One of the primary themes of Wendell Berry’s work is the importance of place. His Jefferson lecture is titled “It All Turns on Affection” because he believes so many of…
