Agrarianism Across the Pond: A Review of Richard Hawking’s At the...
For readers in North America, familiar as most of us are with the history our own agrarian tradition as well as our own “seismic shift in agriculture” from the work of Berry, there emerges much from the work of Hawking as well as Bell of which we should be reminded.
Consider the Forest: A Review of Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life...
If a human timescale—privileging our experience and our hopes—is insufficient to understand the forest, then maybe we will be provoked to reconsider both the human and forestal timescale.
Spring Fever
I had bought a few baseball cards when I was eight years old, mostly for the gum, but the start of fourth grade, in 1967, was when I became serious.
Graced Grit: A Hymn-laced Eulogy to True Grit Author Charles Portis
U.S. Marshal Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn and Mattie bring a type of vigilante justice to Tom Chaney, and we are glad, but Portis doesn’t allow us to be easy about it. There is always a poison fit for the avenger, even if she is a mere child.
Can You (or anyone) Put Wendell Berry’s Lightning in the Bottle...
Below is the text of a review for Orthodox Presbyterians -- of all people -- of Jack Baker and Jeff Bilbro's new book on...
On Being Less than We Are
What you miss out on by not making the climb is too great a loss on such a morning as this.
The Holy Waters, the Bra Tree, and The Unexpected: A...
And then comes the last kayak, plenty buoyant, and in it a beauty contestant in minimal black swimwear.
Once More to the Garden (Then to the Trout Streams): ...
I wonder if Mr. Big in the sky would be willing to give us a Do-Over.
Prairie Fires and Prairie Romances
Caroline Fraser's wonderful Prairie Fires is many things. Primarily it's a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the justly famous Little House books,...