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wendell for wednesday
Please, please, please do yourself a favor and listen to Wendell on Diane Rehm’s show back in November. I’ve listened to it three times already, I think. I kept meaning…
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wendell for wednesday
Please, please, please do yourself a favor and listen to Wendell on Diane Rehm’s show back in November. I’ve listened to it three times already, I think. I kept meaning…
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wendell for wednesday
People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first…
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wendell for wednesday
“The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth – that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies…
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wendell for wednesday
“An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle,…
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wendell for wednesday
Goods It’s the immemorial feelings I like the best: hunger, thirst, their satisfaction; work-weariness, earned rest; the falling again from loneliness to love; the green growth the mind takes from…
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wendell for wednesday
From “The Idea of a Local Economy,” …the first thought may be a recognition of one’s ignorance and vulnerability as a consumer in the total economy. As such a consumer,…
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wendell for wednesday
If you’re participating in Grace’s Hunger Challenge this week, you’re probably thinking about food and hunger a little more frequently and differently than you usually might. Wendell extols us (sub)urban…
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wendell for wednesday
Someday, I’m going to go to the Land Institute’s Prairie Festival. I tried to talk Grant into it this year, but two kids and a new job got in the…
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wendell for wednesday
The Real Work Wendell Berry 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…