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Almost on crossing the Ohio line it seemed to me that people were more open and more outgoing. The waitress in a roadside stand said good morning before I had a chance to, discussed breakfast as though she liked the idea, spoke with enthusiasm about the weather, sometimes even offered some information about herself without my delving. Strangers tal

John Steinbeck • Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The pleasures of my life here are simple – simple, inexpensive and democratic. A warm hill of Marmande tomatoes on a roadside vendor’s stall. A cold beer on a pavement table of the Café de France – Marie Thérèse inside making me a sandwich au camembert. Munching the knob off a fresh baguette as I wander back from Sainte-Sabine. The farinaceous smel

William Boyd • Any Human Heart

Historians call this way of living “task orientation,” because the rhythms of life emerge organically from the tasks themselves, rather than from being lined up against an abstract timeline, the approach that has become second nature for us today.

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

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Perhaps, down here on Earth, we so readily lose perspective because we spend our days on myriad distractions keeping us from feeling the blade of time press against our lives with the urgency of living. Nothing sharpens that blade like seeing the edge between day and night, the beautiful and brutal turning edge, as the planet rotates:

What work can’t the efficiency of unified mankind chop into pure fertilizer?

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

Once the morning dew has evaporated, whole families head out into the waist-high fields to begin the harvest. The grasshoppers, butterflies, and spiders make way as human sounds replace the hum of insects. The grass is cut and then left to dry over a long lunch held under the shade of a tree. After the midday heat has subsided, the family members t... See more

Beauty and Biodiversity in Romania’s Hayfields | Atmos

His farewell to a species turning from animal into data.