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...
Aug 21, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
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...
May 1, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
It is notable and even arresting how often our best efforts meet with failure—or at least what seems failure. This gives an opportunity to take a more careful look at how we conceive the point or goal of our daily labors. In his Parochial and Plain Sermons John Henry...
Jan 10, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
At this time of year when many of us must ‘go back to work’ after a break, we can wonder about the place of work in our life. It makes me think of when I first read Wendell Berry and E.F. Schumacher commenting that our work has become a chore to be avoided. I felt...
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