Jun 16, 2021 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“The Father himself Willed that the path of tillage be not smooth, And first ordained that skill should cultivate The land, by care sharpening the wits of mortals…” Virgil, The Georgics Summer has begun. As a kind of new beginning, every season offers a natural...
Feb 3, 2021 | Articles, Front Porch Republic, Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Man of the Household, Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
*This is a reposting of the first piece I ever posted online, almost exactly eight years ago, at Front Porch Republic. It has remained one of the most popular I’ve posted. Also, here is short video sharing my joy in splitting wood. Hilaire Belloc once wrote that he...
May 27, 2020 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“In all manual work we find the primal phenomenon of culture that is human but close to nature.” “The sphere in which we live is becoming more and more artificial, less and less human,” Romano Guardini, Letters from Lake Como We have lost something today, but we can...
Aug 14, 2019 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“The hand is a tool of tools.” Aristotle, On the Soul Recently I was watching a blacksmith work. I was mesmerized. There is something so satisfying and so fitting—indeed, so human—about the ability to do that kind of work. What most struck me is how glad he must be to...
Aug 22, 2018 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“…the foundations of society were never yet shaken as they are at this day. It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure.” John Ruskin, ‘The Nature...
Jul 8, 2015 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“The gods keep livelihood hidden from men. Otherwise a day’s labor could bring man enough to last a whole year with no more work.” Hesiod, Works and Days In both biblical and ancient Greek accounts, work is something of an enigma. Having an aspect of punishment, it is...
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