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I've written a book about my Idaho homeland—a book about family, rootedness, homesickness, and exodus. It's a book borne out of love for the rural West, & out of a growing sense of urgency over issues of conservation & stewardship.
Pre-order it here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
This month's Granola explores paintings, books, essays, and podcasts on the art of walking: granola.substack.com/p/the-a…
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What is it that makes us love, and miss, a place? How do we grow more home-worthy places?
Some thoughts and theories over at Substack: granola.substack.com/p/the-h…
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I enjoyed talking with Brad East, @gracyolmstead, and @jake_meador about Wendell Berry for the Mere Fidelity podcast. mo-podcast-feed.mo-podcast-f…
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In which I recommend essays by @PatrickDeneen, @gracyolmstead, @jake_meador, @NWirzba, @JMWSPT, @americanes37731, @jamesrwoodtheo, @Jan_Eijking, @JohnClarkLevin, @danielkolitz, and others.
In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends several tributes to Wendell Berry as well as essays about Flock, the common good, and loan apps. frontporchrepublic.com/2026/…
Mourning the loss of a man whose joy and love for the living world transformed the lives of many. A man whose kindness meant answering countless letters, counseling the young and foolish, and loving well his family and his place.
My life would be very different if not for Wendell Berry, his books, and his letters. He and his wife Tanya have shown me the shape of a good life. Their hospitality and friendship, completely unearned and generous, have shaped and blessed me in ways I cannot describe.
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“For Berry, ambition and talent are inseparable from his deeper fealty to family, place, and community. Where many of us have a markedly individualistic vision – in which talent and dreams carry the self beyond a local scope – Berry lives in a world in which young and old, nature and farmer, individual and community are all woven together in a thick tapestry.” @gracyolmstead
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“Women’s work has often been treated as unimportant or tedious: work to belittle or to escape from. Because of this, we’ve assembled a biased and misleading history of the work involved in cultivation and repair.” @gracyolmstead
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Words of wisdom from my 5-year-old, shared as I was prepping tea and snacks:
"The important thing at a tea party is the chocolate."
"The main thing about bread is the butter."
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In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about baseball, gardening, and the Metaverse: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/…
I hope, too, that these thoughts offer a different vision of work + life than we're currently seeing in AI conversations and debates.
Glaucon, in Plato's Republic, suggests that there are three types of goods...
This essay on work + language turns to @iamfujimura, @knorriseyt, Wendell Berry, C.S. Lewis, and Ivan Illich (among others) for insight.
I was/am grateful to get to articulate thoughts I've been mulling over for a decade (!). Thank you to @LMSacasas for helping me write this.
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The Scriptures complexify and deepen this vision of work by showing us a God who delights in poiesis, making cosmos from chaos (as Madeleine L'Engle puts it), and then calling us to do the same. He is furthermore a God who washed feet, healed the sick, and worked as a carpenter!
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This essay on work + language turns to @iamfujimura, @knorriseyt, Wendell Berry, C.S. Lewis, and Ivan Illich (among others) for insight.
I was/am grateful to get to articulate thoughts I've been mulling over for a decade (!). Thank you to @LMSacasas for helping me write this.
"It is precisely these thankless, boring, repetitive tasks that are hardest for the workaholic or utilitarian mind to appreciate, and God knows that being rendered temporarily mindless as we toil is what allows us to approach the temple of holy leisure." granola.substack.com/p/the-d…
"It is precisely these thankless, boring, repetitive tasks that are hardest for the workaholic or utilitarian mind to appreciate, and God knows that being rendered temporarily mindless as we toil is what allows us to approach the temple of holy leisure." granola.substack.com/p/the-d…
Meditations on work and naming, inspired by Owen Barfield, @iamfujimura, @NWirzba, Wendell Berry, and Ivan Illich: granola.substack.com/p/the-d…