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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
“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
“So in those days you didn’t hear people putting ‘just’ before their occupation. People weren’t describing themselves as ‘just’ a farmer,’ and farm wives didn’t describe themselves as ‘just’ a…
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wendell for wednesday
Via @aliteralmess:
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wendell for wednesday
Wendell in his own words for today’s wfw: )
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wendell for wednesday
I’m not sure I’ve ever read anything more romantic… The Blue Robe By Wendell Berry How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little…
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wendell for wednesday
“…I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres,…
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wendell for Christmas
From his 1987 Sabbath poems (now available for the first time in one collection), a Christmas poem: Remembering that it happened once, We cannot turn away the thought, As we go out,…
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wendell for wednesday
I’ve been pondering this one quite a bit lately: “There’s a right way and a wrong way to use anything,” Berry said. ”We need to fulfill our needs in the gentlest possible…
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wendell for wednesday
Continued from a few weeks ago… … the responsible consumer must also be in some way a producer. Out of his own resources and skills, he must be equal to…
