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Iris Rain (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Byron Borger was here a few weeks ago. He was his classic self, lugging more books than we could read in a year to spread before us on whatever space was available (the air hockey table). I was milling around, smelling paper, when he handed me "Hannah Coulter" by Wendell Berry. Derek Meleby had recommended it the week before so I took it and began to read. It is a book that invites understanding...
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Chelsea Green (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
We are now living in a post fast-food-awareness reality, riding on the wake of Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser’s books (who rode on the wake of Wendell Berry), films like Food, Inc., renegade farmer heros like Joel Salatin and Eliot Coleman, and the ever-increasing popularity of urban gardening and locavores. But awareness, like anything, has [...]
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vere loqui (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Well, we have knock down, drag out discussion on Biblical interpretation going on in the comments section of a previous post. So, while we're on the topic, maybe the chief combatants, Lee and Thomas, could address something that I have been chewing on for a year or two, which is encapsulated by some things Wendell Berry said in his essay "The Burden of the Gospels." It is well within the...
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Stephen Bodio's Querencia (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
One of my falconry heroes (one I share with hundreds of other falconers) is Harry McElroy of Arizona. I call Harry the Dean of American Gamehawking . His experience in the sport spans six decades and covers most of the ground between North and South America. He is known especially for his love of quail hawking with Harris hawks, Cooper's hawks and the Aplomado falcon. He is the author of four great...
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Enclave (Free subscription) | 29/06/2009
Seeing himself as a tiny member of a world he cannot comprehend or master or in any final sense possess, he cannot possibly think of himself as a god. And by the same token, since he shares in, depends upon, and is graced by all of which his a part, neither can he become a fiend; he cannot descend into the final despair of destructiveness .... He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying...
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Iris Rain (Free subscription) | 27/06/2009
And so we rest with paper and pen and stories, learning and growing. It is hard to be here sometimes, knowing how much need there is in the world. Knowing how many other places have "need". And still there are Sundays where we rest and are reminded to peace. Though today was a Saturday, today was a day of rest. And I look forward to tomorrow and worshiping with the church. Some conversations...
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Enclave (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
Wendell Berry points to the destructive tendencies of universities crossing the purposes of agriculture: If agriculture is acknowledged to have anything to do with culture, then its study has to include people. But the agriculture experts ruled people out when they made their discipline a specialty--or, rather, when they sorted it into a collection of specialties--and moved it into its own "college"...
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Chelsea Green (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
Wendell Berry—longtime small farm activist, cultural critic, poet, essayist, novelist, and iconic social revolutionary—says he will go to prison if the NAIS law passes. NAIS, the National Animal Identification System, is currently in its “listening session” stage among groups of small farmers in the US. And suffice it to say, the law is not going [...]
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U.S. Politics and the World (Free subscription) | 22/06/2009
Bird Eye posted a reply: It's not about better I am not arguing some right wing superiority trip here it's simply physics. There is only a limited amount of time, money, energy and resources, and if we dilute all of those by trying to be everywhere at once we will do everything badly. Again we only REALLY know the land and people we have face to face one on one serious relationships with, I think Wendell...
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Enclave (Free subscription) | 22/06/2009
By the power of a model, the specialist turns the future into a greenhouse of fantasies. - - Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America Nearly a year ago the Planning Department had the audacity not just to recommend the May Town Center proposal to the Planning Commission without the benefit of neutral traffic and economic impact studies, but to admit publicly that they did not conduct the studies because...
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Enclave (Free subscription) | 21/06/2009
In The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture , Wendell Berry gets real about coercion of assimilating family farms into an industrial agribusiness market. He also addresses how the fiction of development models assign a regimented division of activities to peoples lives under the guise of liberty. His realism applies to Metro Planning's new beatific vision of an urbanized Bells Bend with the...
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A Payne Hollow Visit (Free subscription) | 19/06/2009
Family Vacation 2009 Originally uploaded by paynehollow Sorry for the sparse posting of late. We've had a lot going on. My beloved son is now a high school graduate, soon to be college bound! Woo Hoo!! I'm so very proud of him, he is such a wonderful, smart, groovy young man. My beloved wife and I just celebrated our 24th anniversary! And, believe it or not (Donna, are you reading htis'), the 24th...
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Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 18/06/2009
Food Renegade has an audio recording and the text of a recent set of public remarks at a federal "listening session" in which Wendell Berry vowed to go to jail if he has to in protest of the proposed National...
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Karen Edmisten (Free subscription) | 15/06/2009
Wendell Berry's Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World is a little bit of profundity disguised as a picture book. It appears that it was originally published in Orion Magazine and it contains gems like this: S he lived at the center of the world. This is one of the things every mouse knows. Wherever she was, she was at the center of the world. That one lives at the center of the world is...
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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Gary L. Gregg II argues that Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky , "by being biographically 'of the left,' ... is able to speak traditional truths to people who are powerfully predisposed against order and tradition" — The Traditional Mind . Robert Scheer introduces us to Sheila C. Bair , whom "the big guys on Wall Street and their allies in the Obama administration are out to get"...
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