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Revisiting “The Long-Legged House”
I’ve been rereading one of Wendell Berry’s early works, the title essay of his first published collection The Long-Legged House. He describes a camp on the riverbank, built by his great-uncle, and its…
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Mystery Bird
I woke this morning thinking of a birdsong, heard way back in July. Maybe it’s because I’ve read references to the warblers in two different books lately. Or maybe it’s because it was…
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Sabbath
I’ve taken a few walks this week. This shaggy little fawn, along with his mother and sibling, greeted us on one of them. I worked hard to photograph these little birds in the…
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Not subject
The very first essay I read by Wendell Berry was “The Rise,” from his collection The Long-Legged House. It describes a canoe ride on the Kentucky River during one of its winter rises.…
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Lovely, dark and deep
Actually, the woods my daughters and I walked through yesterday were anything but dark. The sun was so bright I could hardly even see this robin in the trees above, much less determine…
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The Boundary
“The Boundary” is one of the short stories in Wendell Berry’s The Wild Birds. I reread it this week and found it as extraordinarily powerful as I did the first time over 15…
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Revisiting Wendell Berry’s “Fidelity”
Yesterday, we buried my daughter’s hamster. She was injured a week ago, then endured a trip to the vet and a week of pain medication before quietly slipping away. Did she die of…
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Life onscreen
I wanted to pause in my reading of The Next Story and reflect on this passage, where Tim Challies speaks of our insistence that the Internet is there, that it is a place.…
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Poetry Friday: Finishing Well
One never knows, but I’ve been thinking lately that I’m probably about halfway through my life. Maybe a little over. What do I have to show for it? I look back over my…
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Hannah Coulter
I read Hannah Coulter (2004) when it first came out, before my blogging days. Recently my book club (is that too grand a term for three people?) decided to read it again. We…