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wendell for wednesday
Wendell on war in one of my favorite novels (of his or otherwise), Hannah Coulter: As many who have known it have said of it, war is Hell. It is 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
It’s impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit. Wendell Berry, from the classic, The Unsettling of America: Culture…
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wendell for wednesday
Yesterday was Wendell’s eightieth birthday. Grant and I are going to celebrate tonight by making a little dinner from the garden, drinking some Kentucky bourbon, and listening to a few…
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wendell for wednesday
“A person dependent on somebody else for everything from potatoes to opinions may declare that he is a free man, and his government may issue a certificate granting him his…
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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
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
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
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…
