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The Two Economies, Wendell Berry.

19-Mar-14

http://modernsmile.com/promotions/grand-opening/ I’ve been reading “The Two Economies” by Wendell Berry again and again the past few days.  I don’t quite understand the structure of the essay – or if it really has one – but on point after point, I can’t quite believe how much another man’s paragraphs contain the contents of my own heart.

Thoreau on Chopping Versus Buying Wood.

02-Mar-14

http://thmiii.com/images/images-2/thmiii.com/images/images-2/4/ And on economics in general: If I buy one necessary of life, I cheat myself to some extent, I deprive myself of the pleasure, the inexpressible joy, which is the unfailing reward of satisfying any want of our nature simply and truly. From his Journal.

Earth Song.

28-Feb-14

I’ve been enjoying the apocalyptic selfy earth-pain of this forgotten Michael classic… it came on the radio recently, which brought it back to mind.  You can dance it pretty easily, and the video is a kind of pleasing exaggerated train-wreck dirge-dance.

Living Latin in NYC.

12-Feb-14

I’ll be teaching this weekend at the Paideia Institute’s Living Latin in New York event.

One Year Later.

06-Feb-14

Thinking of David Morgan today.

Simplicity.

24-Jan-14

“Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy?” – Isaiah 55:2

Self-Sufficiency.

16-Jan-14

I’ve been terribly busy lately – it’s tapping season, the busiest time of year on a maple farm – and I haven’t had time to write down the long thoughts I’ve been having, but one of the themes in my mind has been an examination of the idea of self-sufficiency or self-reliance.  I’ve long thought […]

Kate Ver Ploeg.

07-Dec-13

A few years ago when I was living in New Orleans a friend told me she had someone I just had to meet, a friend of hers who would be passing through the city for that single night, Kate Ver Ploeg.  The next morning she was setting off to bike from New Orleans to the […]

A Christian Pope!

01-Nov-13

Almost everything in life that you’re supposed to do is obvious – I think most people can look back on only four or five serious decisions in their life (which haunt us forever, of course) when we really do not know what the right thing to do is.  But it is so unusual, so horribly […]

Thoreau again.

12-Oct-13

“Our least deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.” – Thoreau