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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
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
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
Wendell Berry talks often and emphatically about place. In his essay “Conservation and Local Economy,” Berry explains what he means when he uses the word “place:” I. Land that is…
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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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everyday is earth day
I’ve been a little quiet around here – we took a long family trip down to our favorite place: Black Mountain, NC (about 20 minutes outside of Asheville). We love…
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wendell for wednesday
“It is a spiritual ambition, like goodness. The wild creatures belong to the place by nature, but as a man I can belong to it only by understanding and by…
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Wendell for Wednesday
So I guess Mr. Berry spoke at a book club at some town along the Ohio last week. First, I’m intrigued by a small town that holds an annual book…
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Wendell for Wednesday
There were so many great nuggets in the Dissent Magazine interview that I just had to include another one: To live and work attentively in a diverse landscape such as…
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Wendell for Wednesday
From Wendell Berry’s “Sabbath Poems, 2007, VI:” Because we have not made our lives to fit Our places, the forests are ruined, the fields eroded, The streams polluted, the mountains…
