Spring: Make Life Seasonal Again

Spring: Make Life Seasonal Again

Spring is calling. And we can answer, before it’s too late. Nature—and I mean the wonderful world bursting into bloom and the human nature throbbing within us—is always on our side. It never stops calling us to richer, fuller life. We can listen to our flesh. It has...
Restoring Craftsmanship to Restore Humanity

Restoring Craftsmanship to Restore Humanity

Cultivating the earth is an exercise in being human. And this exercise is more important today than ever before as we suffer an increasing loss of a sense of the human difference. Here I mean all of us, not just confused intellectuals or mislead youth. Human life is a...
Why We Need a New Kind of Homesteading

Why We Need a New Kind of Homesteading

‘Homesteading,’ whatever exactly it is, runs deep in the American psyche and history. Vast stretches of our nation were settled through it. A great number of our forebears—and here I do not mean only settlers or pioneers but people living for generations in one...
Rediscover the Ordinary This Spring

Rediscover the Ordinary This Spring

I am convinced that our most significant response to the challenges of our age will be in the most ordinary practices. I do not say the obvious but the ordinary. Ordinary is a great word; it means what pertains to the regular order. We live in a time when what used to...

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