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(belated) Wendell for Wednesday
Today’s Wendell for Wednesday is not only late, but it doesn’t even come directly from Wendell. But I enjoyed and related to this piece on “Wendell Berry’s Sacred Environmentalism.”
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Wendell for Wednesday
The ‘drudgery’ of growing one’s own food, then, is not drudgery at all. (If we make the growing of food a drudgery, which is what ‘agribusiness’ does make of it,…
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Wendell for Sunday
I found reading Wendell’s reflections in the days following the attacks particularly enlightening. I’ve spent the last few days imagining how different our world today would be had we heeded…
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Wendell for Wednesday
I’m feeling a little rebellious today, so I thought this was appropriate: We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Wendell was on the Writer’s Almanac yesterday on my way to work…what a great start to the day. I had a hard time going into the office instead of staying…
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Wendell for Wednesday
We stopped at the Kentucky Artisan Center in Berea, Kentucky for pit stop during our travels home from South Carolina this past weekend. The Center was quite busy, and Jasper…
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Wendell for Wednesday
We stopped at the Kentucky Artisan Center in Berea, Kentucky for pit stop during our travels home from South Carolina this past weekend. The Center was quite busy, and Jasper…
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Wendell for Wednesday
I finished Berry’s Hannah Coulter a few weeks ago. I need to go through and pick out my favorite quotes (there were many) to share here, but I noticed that…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Here’s Wendell defending the work of the home: Another decent possibility that my critics implicitly deny is that of work as a gift. …what appears to infuriate them is their…
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Wendell for Wednesday
“A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.” Wendell Berry