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wendell for wednesday
Chewing on this for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend… I sit in the shade of the trees of the land I was born in. As they are native I am…
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wendell for wednesday
THIS! What he’s saying to me is, there is no big solution. It’s broken! We’re all complicit in a broken system, and it a broken world. The question isn’t how…
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wendell for wendesday
I reread Wendell’s famous (and infamous) essay, “Why I am NOT going to buy a computer,” because we tried to unplug as much as possible on vacation last week. I…
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wendell for wednesday
Wendell won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle last week. Nick Offerman (AKA: Ron Swanson in our house) introduced and presented the award. In his speech,…
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wendell for wednesday
Wendell, from this recent interview, answering every reader’s favorite question: what do you plan to read next? I am 81 years old. By now, I know better than to make…
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wendell for wednesday
“The Letter” Dear Ed, I dreamed that you and I were sent to Hell. The place we went to was not fiery or cold, was not Dante’s Hell or Milton’s,…
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wendell for wednesday
I was never much of a homebody until we moved to Funky Farms, and now I rarely want to leave. Many environmentalists argue that staying home is one of the…
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wendell for wednesday
“So in those days you didn’t hear people putting ‘just’ before their occupation. People weren’t describing themselves as ‘just’ a farmer,’ and farm wives didn’t describe themselves as ‘just’ a…
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wendell for wednesday
“The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use…
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wendell for wednesday
“We are holy creatures living among other holy creatures in a world that is holy. Some people know this, and some do not.” Wendell Berry, from Christianity and the Survival of Creation
