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• Take Five

  
  Rolling in the Dough — Authority: 119
  You might think Ive been snoozin at the wheel around here lately. Apart from the weekly updates, what the hey-ho has Her So-Called Baklava Majesty been doing? you may ask.And Id have to shrug my shoulders and say, beats me. Ive been so focused on the market that (A) I havent gotten much beyond utilitarian comfort ...
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• Fifty Dollar Tomato

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 132
  Hillsdale, MI. When I first thought about writing this it was the “Ten Dollar Tomato.”  But historians are more or less required to tell the truth, and it now costs amateur (literally, “lover”) gardeners about five times as much to grow a good old beefsteaker as it did in the early 80s. The great Guy Clark, ...
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• Wendell Berry: "The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance"

  
  Dialogic — Authority: 139
  Berry, Wendell. “A Letter to Wes Jackson.” Home Economics. Berkeley, CA: North Point Press, 1987. The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance. Our knowledge of the world instructs us first of all that the world is greater than our knowledge of it. To those who rejoice in abundance and ...
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• Berry on The Necessity of Agriculture

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 424
  In Japan,”They even think agriculture may be a good thing for a nation of eaters to have.” Wendell Berry on the necessity of agriculture.
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• BORN BY OUR BIRTH

  
  Bikehiker — Authority: 126
  Born by our birth Here on earth Our flesh to wear Our death to bear -- Wendell Berry in Leavings (Counterpoint, 2009)
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• Christopher Saunders "Whitenoise"

  
  Hungry Hyaena — Authority: 112
  Christopher Saunders "Whitenoise no.8" 2009 Oil on linen 24 x 18 inches A regular passenger on New York City s subway system , Im grateful for the Metropolitan Transit Authority s " Poetry in Motion " and " Train of Thought " programs, efforts that repurpose subway advertising space as a showcase for poetry or ...
  1 week ago

• [Multimedia Tuesday] Wendell Berry on the Diane Rehm Show.

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 131
  Wendell Berry was on the second hour of the Diane Rehm show yesterday, talking about his new book of poetry Leavings ( Click here for our review ). CLICK HERE to listen to this radio conversation (RealAudio or Windows Media formats).
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• Wendell Berry speaking in Charlottesville December 3

  
  Charlottesville Words — Authority: 126
  The Bridge PAI is co-sponsoring this event: Brown College Visiting Environmental Writer and Scholars (ViEWS) Lecture Series, 2009-2010 This year Brown College’s ViEWS Lecture Series welcomes Wendell Berry, Michael Lundblad, Rebecca Solnit, and Gary Snyder. Wendell Berry, December 2nd-3rd Brown College, ...
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• Writing Turns Me On

  
  Kelsey Timmerman — Authority: 119
  “I made a deal with my muse. I leave her alone and she leaves me alone.” -       poet and author Wendell Berry on the Diane Rehm Show today Writing turns me on. No, not like that you perve.  Okay, maybe I should restate that. I have a writing switch that I turn On and Off.  When it’s on I search for ...
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• get a cup of cocoa, get comfy and listen to this

  
  small things — Authority: 111
  wendell berry was interviewed on the diane rehm show today. heres the link. we couldnt get it to download off itunes, but joel got it on real player. if you havent read his stuff, listen to his voice and you will feel right at home. i do.
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• “Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.” ~ Carl Schurz

  
  Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings on Life, Love & Other Trifles — Authority: 119
  Sun Reflected in Frosty River “I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston from Dust Tracks on the RoadWell, we survived Thanksgiving and my mother’s lovely running critical ...
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• Wendell Berry, Questionnaire

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 566
  Wendell Berry’s poem Questionnaire via Everyday Liturgy (h/t Laurie K)1. How much poison are you willingto eat for the success of the freemarket and global trade? Pleasename your preferred poisons.2. For the sake of goodness, how muchevil are you willing to do?Fill in the following blankswith the names of your ...
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• Wendell Berry: Leavings

  
  A Circle of Quiet — Authority: 126
  VIII. I tremble with gratitude for my children and their children who take pleasure in one another. In our dinners together, the dead enter and pass among us in living love and in memory. And so the young are taught. ~2005~ The candle glow of silver, passed down by those now gone. But ...
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• HUBBLE THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2009

  
  Meta Watershed — Authority: 123
  (Eagle Nebula, M16, Pillar Detail, Portion of Top) Every Thursday, I post a very large photograph of some corner of space captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and available online from the picture album at HubbleSite , followed by poetry after the jump. XI. by Wendell Berry Though he was ill and in pain, ...
  2 weeks ago

• WE LIVE BY MERCY

  
  Bikehiker — Authority: 126
  Working well and giving thanks--two responses to mercy, according to Wendell Berry I usually find good fodder for my mind and uneasy nourishment formy soul whenever I read Wendell Berry. It happened as I read in A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997 . Two verses of a poem titled "Amish Economy" ...
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• Leavings

  
  A Circle of Quiet — Authority: 126
  When Wendell Berry was in San Francisco earlier this month, the greatest part of the evening was when he quietly pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket, unfolded it and read to us a new poem. I have no idea when I will get to read it for myself, to remember his words with my mind that forgets too easily, but the ...
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• A day that might have been better

  
  Torch Lake Views — Authority: 420
  That pretty much sums up a lot of my week. I’d tell you all about it but I’m off to the other day job. Let me link you to another poem by Wendell Berry. I found this one in my daily Writer’s Almanac today, and it was quite a comfort: XI. from Leavings .   Back later.
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• “Embodied light…”

  
  My Inner Edge — Authority: 106
    THE FUTURE For God’s sake, be done with this jabber of “a better world.” What blasphemy! No “futuristic” twit or child thereof ever in embodied light will see a better world than this, though they foretell inevitably a worse. Do something! Go cut the weeds beside the oblivious road. Pick up the cans and ...
  3 weeks ago

• topless america

  
  the irresistible fleet of bicycles — Authority: 434
  watch this, and re-read Wendell Berry & Wes Jackson’s 50 Year Farm Bill piece from last January Topless America.org Over 520 Appalachian Mountains have been destroyed, covering and poisoning more than 2,000 miles of headwater streams due to Mountaintop Removal coal mining. More than 7 percent of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Read Wendell Berry.

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 129
  Our friend Ben has never been formally introduced to the novelist, poet, farmer, and ethicist Wendell Berry, but he did kick me once. It was at some function Bob Rodale was hosting back in the day, and Wendell Berry was one of the speakers. As he attempted to squeeze through the aisle to his seat, he inadvertently ...
  3 weeks ago

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