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Going Home with Wendell Berry

"I wanted to write about little-bitty people in a great big landscape, the way Turgenev does. I wanted to tell the story of that Northwest region, which I think is so wonderful. Most of all, I wanted to try to give the sense -- because it makes your life so interesting -- of knowing that you are alive in a generation that will die. Because these

archive.nytimes.com • A Pilgrim's Progress

Once upon a time, when checking and scrolling were not an option, there existed so much interstitial space. The gap between one activity and another was an open field, a transitional territory.

Lia Purpura Published • The Ecology of Attention

Central has proven that when the flora, fauna and funga that grow together share a plate together, the resulting flavors can be extraordinary. How can we get the wider world to think about what we eat in a way where all the pieces fit together within a balanced ecological puzzle, not just prizing certain ingredients or ones that are easy to produce

New Worlder • Eating Ecosystems

The Hedgehog Review

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The Marginalian

Maria Popova themarginalian.org

There are moments when I think Sunny’s first year went by fast, then I stumble across an old photo or text and my perception of those early months unfolds like an accordion and I’m stunned to recall the depth and variety of experiences I underwent, the majority of which have now been lost to me, and which may be recalled only in bits and pieces... See more

Haley Nahman • #229: Living to please your future self

I’m going to settle for small, random stabs of extreme interestingness – moments of intense awareness of the things I’m about to lose, and of gladness that they exist

Helen Garner • Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’

Author Katherine May on the seasons of life:

“We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them again, all the while slowly losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal untruth. Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and... See more