“All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride or excess of power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman’s silence receiving the river’s grace, the gardener’s musing on rows…” A little Wendell Berry goes a long way. As the gardener’s rows are getting tucked in […]
Reading a biography can be one of the best sanctifying tools that we didn’t know we had. I found myself receiving a copy of an autobiography of a musician that I have been a fan of since, as my kids would say, “the 1900s”. I am definitely a music snob, but only in the most
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Our yard is filled with mud. Not the good kind, where kids slosh and laugh and mom looks the other way because it is spring in Maine. It is the boot swallowing, productivity-inhibiting, slough of despond-ish kind. I have been tempted, several times to “deal with it” by staying inside and waiting for the warmth
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In the Lost Tools of Writing we learn about the five common topics. These topics are 5 categorical questions that we ask in order to invent something. Asking questions is essential for thinking. I tell my children that there is a world of difference between the man who enters a room saying, “this is nice”
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Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. That’s how the idiom goes. This seems to be the career goal of every person in my generation. While the motivating factor for this saying may bring us to a place of finding work we love, it also ignores a very real
