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Wendell for Wednesday
If we will have the wisdom to survive, To stand like slow-growing trees On a ruined place, renewing, enriching it, If we will make our seasons welcome here, Asking not…
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Wendell for Wednesday
A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat…
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Wendell for Wednesday
We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the…
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Wendell for Wednesday
From Wendell Berry’s “Sabbath Poems, 2007, VI:” Because we have not made our lives to fit Our places, the forests are ruined, the fields eroded, The streams polluted, the mountains…
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Wendell for Wednesday
From Wendell Berry’s “Sabbath Poems, 2007, VI:” Because we have not made our lives to fit Our places, the forests are ruined, the fields eroded, The streams polluted, the mountains…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Wendell was selected as the 41st Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). NEH Chairman said of Mr. Berry, Wendell Berry is an…
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Wendell for Wednesday
But one’s real duty to the future is to do as you should do now. Make the best choices, do the best work, fulfill your obligations in the best way…
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Wendell for Wednesday
A little of Wendell’s fiction for today, from possibly my favorite novel of all time Jayber Crow, Just as a good man would not coerce the love of his wife,…
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Wendell for Wednesday
A little of Wendell’s fiction for today, from possibly my favorite novel of all time Jayber Crow, Just as a good man would not coerce the love of his wife,…
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Wendell for Wednesday
Eating with the fullest pleasure — pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance — is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure…