Touched by an Angel (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
our choices of food determine a lot of things from politics to economy – wendell berry I think most of you know that I have a Food Recipe Blog ( with over 6400 subscribers. I like to keep in touch with my readers so I invite them to add me in my facebook and the [...]
CAUTE (Free subscription) | yesterday
The address was preceded with a story I have used many times before and is taken from ' Life is a Miracle ' by Wendell Berry (2000, Washington DC, Counterpoint Press pp. 151-152) My grandson, who is four years old, is now following his father and me over some of the same countryside that I followed my father and grandfather over. When his time comes, my grandson will choose as he must, but so far all...
Karen Edmisten (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
This is a sweetly captivating poem by Wendell Berry, a man who clearly knows what true marital love is. Have a lovely Friday! The Blue Robe by Wendell Berry How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two,...
La Vida Locavore - Front Page (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Last night I had the great privilege to see and hear two of the most influential and inspiring figures in the sustainable food movement in conversation. While Michael Pollan has become a household name through books like Omnivore's Dilemma, and most recently, films like Food Inc. and The Botany of Desire , he took the interviewer's seat and gave the stage to a man who has touched so many of us who...
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The only way to understand Dreher is to grasp that all of his writings constitute an aria of his own self-loathing. He hates gays because he rightly fears where his own pee-pee so desperately wants to go. He yearns for authentic spirituality yet can only approach the world as a giant, sampling tongue. He worships Wendell Berry and writes screed after screed against consumerism, yet just y...
Mecozy (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
in progress today: fika with amanda and a walk in gorgeous weather, a delicious cheese purchase to be enjoyed shortly, sewing at home with pinky leon, and tonight botanical illustration class. a good day. feeling inspired by these three women who opened their own green fabric screenprinting biz . also by wonder wonder wares and ah-yi's wood block printing also enjoying wendell berry's novels. i imagine...
Chelsea Green (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Gene Logsdon farms in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and is one of the clearest and most original voices of rural America. In fact, Wendell Berry calls him “the most experienced and best observer of agriculture we have.” And according to Logsdon, it just may be that farming isn’t supposed to be about money. From his blog, The [...]
A Longhouse Birdhouse (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
SMITHEREENS Best to be prudent with a computer virus Macs are pretty immune to viruses Not bullet-proof, but close One doesn't want to start getting cocky About viruses or one's machine Any machine Last night I watched a mega-ton monster truck Hurdle itself after charging a ramp And just about lift vertically in the air All to smash a pumpkin grown over the last six months (it grew 50 pounds a day)...
below the din (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Two different friends of mine have recently shared this with me. It's brilliant, because, well, it's Wendell Berry. MANIFESTO: THE MAD FARMER LIBERATION FRONT by Wendell Berry Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any...
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
And other wisdom from Wendell Berry, forwarded to me by reader Gary Seaton: MANIFESTO: THE MAD FARMER LIBERATION FRONT by Wendell Berry Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to...
P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
As Wendell Berry says, we live in an economy that is based on the seven deadly sins. Book: God’s Economy: Redefining the Health & Wealth Gospel. By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. Zondervan, 2009 An intriguing book, so I asked the author, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, a number of questions, to which he gracefully responded. Interview: “1. Why exactly do you use the concept [...]
World Culture Pictorial (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. — Wendell Berry
NY's Funniest Rabbi (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear, in the ancient faith: what we need is here. And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here. From The Wild Geese, By Wendell Berry
Dewey's Treehouse (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
From this interview with Jeff Fearnside in The Sun Magazine . Thanks to Holy Experience for the link. Berry: They didn’t have electricity. All their technology was nineteenth century. But they were satisfied, and they lived a great life — they made a great life. It was a work of art. Fearnside: So their answer was to simplify their lives so that they required less income and could do the...
Holy Experience (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
thoughts from Wendell Berry ... W e had two friends, Harlan and Anna Hubbard, who had a little income from renting out Harlan’s mother’s house after she died. I think that was all the regular income they had. Harlan painted and wrote, and he and Anna played music every day. They lived, as Harlan put it, “ on the fringe of society .” They didn’t have electricity. All their...
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