No colo do meu avô... (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
"A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body." André Maurois "The past is not a package one can lay away." Emily Dickinson "The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it." Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."...
The World's Fair (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Let's call this a public service announcement: Wendell Berry will be visiting the University of Virginia in early December. He is the first in a series of four speakers for U.Va.'s Brown College Visiting Environmental Writer and Scholars (ViEWS) Lecture Series , 2009-2010. (As it happens, Rebecca Solnit, the subject here , is the third speaker in the series, next February; not to mention poet and...
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
"A Spiritual Journey" "And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home." ~ Wendell Berry
Poor Richard's Almanac (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Our friend Ben has never been formally introduced to the novelist, poet, farmer, and ethicist Wendell Berry, but he did kick me once. It was at some function Bob Rodale was hosting back in the day, and Wendell Berry was one of the speakers. As he attempted to squeeze through the aisle to his seat, [...]
Secondhand Smoking Jacks (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Here are the books my book club selected for the 2009-2010 year: Nov: The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud Dec: Sula, Toni Morrison Jan: Dracula, Bram Stoker (in the designated slot for a classic) Feb: Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell Mar: Bel Canto, Ann Patchett Apr: Three Novels: Nathan + two others, Wendell Berry May: Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri June: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David...
Mecozy (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Cross-posted on Sew Green I’ve been reading a lot of Wendell Berry's books lately, and one of the main themes throughout his essays and fiction (haven’t gotten to the poetry yet, but i’m sure it’s there as well), is that of committing to a place—working to protect and improve that place, the land and one’s community. While I am all for that in theory, I have had...
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Here’s what Ken Kesey had to say about Wendell Berry: “Wendell Berry is the Sargeant York charging unnatural odds across our no-man’s-land of ecology. Conveying the same limber innocence of young Gary Cooper, Wendell advances on the current crop of Krauts armed with naught but his pen and his mythic ridgerunner righteousness. One after the other he picks them off, from the flying...
Touched by an Angel (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
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) | 08/11/2009
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)...
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