A podcast about the life and work of Wendell Berry: the Kentucky farmer, poet, novelist, and essayist. Hosted by @johnepattison and David Johnson. And guests!
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In his poem “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front,” #WendellBerry calls us to “Practice resurrection.” In today’s episode, we discuss one of Berry’s Sabbath poems. It has a Christmas theme that could be summarized this way: “Practice incarnation.”
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On Seth Myers, Nick Offerman talked about his book “Where the Deer and the Antelope Play.” The seed of that book was a question Berry asked Offerman in 2018. He’s also doing an event with George Saunders on Saturday at First Congregational Church in L.A.
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New episode! In today’s episode we talk with Matt Wheeler about his new Port William-inspired album, “A Hard History of Love.”
Album cover art by @nedbustard
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By the way, we'll have another episode coming very early next week. It's an interview with singer-songwriter Matt Wheeler, about his new, Port William-inspired album, "A Hard History of Love." You can check out his Kickstarter here: kickstarter.com/projects/har…
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We're officially relaunched! There's a new episode up now. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, etc.
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Relaunching this week. Got a fresh set of duds for the occasion. #WendellBerry
(Photo by @ericmuhr.)
In his latest Donkey Thoughts, @Nick_Offerman recommends reading "A Gathering of Old Men," by Ernest J. Gaines, in preparation for reading Berry's new book "A Need to Be Whole." nickofferman.substack.com/p/…
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Episode 5 is up! Take a dive into the work of Wendell Berry and agrarian economics.. and a brief interlude into Evangelical dating culture too! Available on Google, Spotify, and Apple! buzzsprout.com/835555/280164…
"Now it has become urgent that the sense of community should include the world, that it should come to be a realization that all men ultimately share the same place, the same nature, and the same destiny." -- Wendell Berry, "The Loss of the Future"
"The recognition of that amazing and terrifying dependence, and of the great difficulty of obligation it implies, ought to make the beginning of a new moral vision, a renewal of the sense of community." -- Wendell Berry, "The Loss of the Future"
"A man on a bulldozer can scarcely make a move that does not affect either his neighbors or his heirs. All his acts, so empowered, involve a tampering with the birthright of his race." -- Wendell Berry, "The Loss of the Future"
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"Because of the enormous increase in the economic and technological power of individuals, what once were private acts become public: the consequences are inevitably public." -- Wendell Berry, "The Loss of the Future"
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It is no longer necessary to sleep
in order to dream of our destruction.
-- From "A Man Walking and Singing," in THE BROKEN GROUND (1964)
"It is the privilege and the labor of the apprentice of creation to come with his imagination into the unimaginable, and with his speech into the unspeakable." Wendell Berry, THE LONG-LEGGED HOUSE
How are you "apprenticing yourself to creation" this weekend?
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"[The] best government is the one that governs least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing. The answer to big government is not private freedom, but private responsibility." -- Wendell Berry, "The Loss of the Future"
"Consideration of the future--which has become for us, now, largely a question of self-control--leads necessarily to the consideration of ideals....Men and nations who have no idealism--no order of hopefulness--have no future, or none they can bear to think about."
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"When the people have neither the incentive nor the moral means to resist and correct their institutions, they are poorly served by them. They become their servants' servants." -- Wendell Berry, "The Loss of the Future"
"A question that must trouble the rest of the world a good deal than it troubles us is: Can we learn to use our power to avoid the doom of it? Has anybody ever?" -- Wendell Berry, "The Loss of the Future"
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"We have lost the hopeful and disciplining sense that we are preparing a place to live in, and for our children to live in." -- Wendell Berry, "The Loss of the Future"
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