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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
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
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 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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what I’m learning & loving: march 2016
I’m actually finding myself jot things down for this list throughout the month – that has to mean something good, right? It’s kind of like when you start keeping a…
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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,…
