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wendell for wednesday
From Wendell’s essay, “The Work of Local Culture,” In the woods, the bucket is no metaphor; it simply reveals what is always happening in the woods, if the woods is…
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wendell for wednesday
I’m sure I’ve already used this one before, but it’s one of my favorites (and I’m having trouble keeping track of what I’ve used and what I haven’t!). We’re members…
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wendell for wednesday
From a Sabbath poem: Because we have not made our lives to fit our places, the forests are ruined, the fields eroded, the streams polluted, the mountains overturned. Wendell Berry
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wendell for wednesday
In the June 2013 issue of The Progressive magazine, The solution, many times more complex and difficult, would be to go beyond our ideas, obviously insane, of war as the way…
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wendell for wednesday
From The Art of the Commonplace: Another decent possibility that my critics implicitly deny is that of work as a gift. …what appears to infuriate them is their supposition that [my…
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wendell for wednesday
One of the primary results–and one of the primary needs–of industrialism is the separation of people and places and products from their histories. To the extent that we participate in…
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wendell for wednesday
But now, in summer dusk, a man Whose hair and beard curl like spring ferns Sits under the yard trees, at rest, His smallest daughter on his lap. This is…
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wendell for wednesday
“When a community loses its memory, its members no longer know each other. How can they know each other if they have forgotten or have never learned each other’s stories?…
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wendell for wednesday
From a letter in support of the Catholic Worker Movement’s campaign against frac sand mining in Minnesota: I will say, first, that there is never, for any reason, a justification…
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wendell for wednesday
If you’ve been reading here for long or if you’re familiar with the growing local food movement, you’ve heard of Michael Pollan. He is coming out with a new book…