May 31, 2023 | Wednesday Quotes
Bluebirds and tree swallows raise their young in a house. But though they make a nest, they don’t make a home. Humans make homes. A home is a house where humans make a life together. A home is a physical place distinct from all others precisely because it is the place...
Dec 8, 2021 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“let this day begin again the change of hogs into people, not the other way around, for today we celebrate again our lives’ wedding with the world, for by our hunger, by this provisioning, we renew the bond.” Wendell Berry, ‘For the Hog...
Nov 25, 2020 | Natural Steward, Natural Steward (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“A significant part of the pleasure of eating is one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world form which food comes.” Wendell Berry, “The Pleasures of Eating” in What are People For? There are very good reasons to consider where our food comes from. Let us...
Sep 16, 2020 | True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“I saw them in all the times past and to come, all somehow there in their own time and in all time and in no time…” Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow Some time ago it really struck me when reading Wendell Berry’s fiction how he portrayed growing old, and...
Jan 29, 2020 | Natural Steward (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship, we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation.” Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land “Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the...
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