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wendell for wednesday
From an interview on Indiana Public Radio: If you understand your own place and its intricacy and the possibility of affection and good care of it, then imaginatively you recognize…
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wendell for wednesday
I loved catching this on The Writer’s Almanac last week: XI The need comes on me now to speak across the years to those who finally will live here after the…
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wendell for wednesday
Sabbath 1998 I. Whatever happens, those who have learned to love one another have made their way into the lasting world and will not leave, Whatever happens. Wendell Berry
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wendell for wednesday
“I don’t think you can solve poverty as an economic or financial problem and still allow the ground to be destroyed under people’s feet. … All these people yelling about…
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wendell for wednesday
The Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which…
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wendell for wednesday
A little Jayber for this beautiful day, because it’s about time for my annual re-reading of one of my favorite novels: “But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time…of all…
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wendell for wednesday
I listened to Wendell’s conversation with Gary Snyder at last week’s Festival of Faiths. The audio quality was rough, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. This, especially, stuck with me: My…
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wendell for wednesday
Join me in listening in on this conversation between Wendell and Gary Snyder at the Festival of Faiths in Louisville this evening. More information on Gary Snyder here. Side note:…
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wendell for wednesday
Along last week’s theme, here’s Wendell’s What We Need Is Here: Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to…
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wendell for wednesday
At our house, we’ve been doing a lot of thinking about work lately: what is “good work,” what do we want to teach our children about work (and how that compares…