Mar 18, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
Several principles that shape how I live I learned from Wendell Berry. He has an astounding share of common sense and an ability to cut through to what matters. He finds extraordinary beauty in the ordinary—often an ordinary that as a people we have set aside or lost....
Jun 4, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
Being too serious about lighter things can ruin them, for instance by undermining spontaneity. At the same time, a certain intentionality is always in order, especially when arranging things for others. Vacation can have a significant place in life, and so it calls...
Feb 19, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
It is perhaps the most important thing I ask someone I love. In a sense, nothing else matters. “Show me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest at midday.” (Song of Songs 1:7) Wherever that is, so there will I live. With you. This brings to...
Feb 12, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
Wise men and the purveyors of contemporary culture recognize the same dramatic truth. We are addicted to news. Probably unlike the purveyors, the wise perceive the root of the addiction and so can offer something the purveyors don’t want—a path to freedom. Over...
Feb 5, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
There is nothing quite like the silence that comes over the room at the close of the final sentence. For a brief yet timeless stretch we are all there together, highly aware of one another but in wonderful solitude. Then, the conversation begins. The power of reading...
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