Wendell Berry: A Very Short Introduction Wendell Berry Introduction Wendell Berry (1934-present) was born in Henry County, Kentucky. Berry pursued his M.A in English literature at the University of Kentucky and went on to teach at several…

"... people, the land, and their local communities were linked in bonds of fidelity: Men and women with each other and their families through bonds of marriage; these families to the land through generations of farming; and these different households to larger communities in bonds of mutual aid."

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

Empires decline all the time, for all kinds of reasons, but our present moment will be remembered in history books for the sheer volume of *voluntary & pointless self-imposed damage*. We're systematically dismantling what made us great, for no reason! Genuinely, with no rationale! It's wild.

Wendell Berry's 2007 Commencement Address speaks very much to the challenges we face today in higher education. The current regime's attacks are congruent with the corporate takeover that Berry deplores.

I was saddened to learn that legendary journalist Bill Moyers has died. In early April, 2013, Moyers conducted a lively interview with Wendell Berry. Both men's wisdom, respect and humor shown through in their extended conversation, which is available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ejYAfcjJmY&t=1s

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

WHATEVER happens, those who have learned to love one another have made their way to the lasting world and will not leave, whatever happens. Wendell Berry Sabbath Poem I, 1998.

YouTube video by CNN 'Could not be more stupid': Scott Galloway on Trump's tariffs

Talking about Trump's tariffs with Anderson Cooper on @cnn.com... youtu.be/qg3JOR44r6M?...

NW fruit farmers are getting crushed by Trump’s tariffs—apple exports down 77%, pears down 99%, cherries down 73%, costing them up to $1.1 billion since 2017. Trump’s trade war is devastating farmers and workers, and he couldn’t care less.

NO CLOTURE
NO on CR

NO CLOTURE
NO on CR

Elon Musk's AI chatbot says a 'Russian asset' delivered the State of the Union | Opinion The chatbot Grok scoured available public data and found a '75-85% likelihood' that Donald Trump more or less works for Vladimir Putin.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot says a 'Russian asset' delivered the State of the Union
The chatbot Grok scoured available public data and found a '75-85% likelihood' that Donald Trump more or less works for Vladimir Putin.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

The advert is seen at the end of a bus stop. It says “GOES FROM 0 TO 1939 IN 3 SECONDS”. Underneath is a picture of Elon Musk doing his Hitler salute out of the roof of a white Tesla. Underneath is says. TESLA: THE SWASTICAR

An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.

“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.”

- Ezra Klein

We are now pretty obviously facing the possibility of a world that the and supranational corporations, and the governments and educational systems that serve them, will control entirely for their own enrichment-and, incidentally and inescapably, for the impoverishment of all the rest of us. This will be a world in which the cultures that preserve nature and rural life will simply be disallowed. It will be, as our experience suggests, a postagricultural world. But as we now begin to see, you cannot have a postagricultural world that is not also postdemocratic, postreligious, postnatural-in other words, it will be posthuman, contrary to the best that we have meant by 'humanity.?' Wendell Berry "Conserving Communities" (Another Turn of the Crank, 1996).

Happy MLK Day.

Excerpt: Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World by Elizabeth Sawin Once you start looking, examples of multisolving are easy to find.

Hey that's cool. You can read an excerpt of Multisolving in the Good Men Project. goodmenproject.com/f...

Tilth Alliance at 50: This group revolutionized how we eat and compost Fifty years ago, forward-thinking food growers formed the group that would become today's Tilth Alliance, revolutionizing how Washingtonians grow and eat food.

Tilth Alliance at 50: This group revolutionized how we eat and compost

Our blessings to you for Christmas and a bright New Year!