What I see in Berry, and what I’ve been learning to live out, little by little, is the centrality of worship to personal and communal health…
Berry has changed the way I see my home. The landscape became more beautiful. Now I can drive 15 minutes down Highway 77 toward Crete, passing farms and what’s left of the prairie, and the scene shoots straight through me. I can go on walks and feel the gusting winds off the Great Plains and welcome them with “unconsecrated relish.
Berry has changed the way I see my home. The landscape became more beautiful. Now I can drive 15 minutes down Highway 77 toward Crete, passing farms and what’s left of the prairie, and the scene shoots straight through me. I can go on walks and feel the gusting winds off the Great Plains and welcome them with “unconsecrated relish.
Jake Meador argues that even urbanites can learn something from rural poet Wendell Berry, including the excellent line, “What Portland can learn from Port William.”
Berry is one of Amanda’s favorite poets, and she finds his long meditations on farm living eerily applicable to her urban life. If you’ve never encountered Berry before, start with his “Manifesto: the Mad Farmer Liberation Front.”
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