“If you take seriously those passages in the scripture that say that we live by God's spirit and his breath, that we live, move, and have our being in God, the implications for the present economy are just devastating. Those passages call for an entirely generous and careful economic life.”
Wendell Berry, Kentucky farmer, poet, novelist, and essayist, is also a prophet.
“The Boundary,” my favorite Berry short story (and included in The Distant Land, a recent compilation of his work, reviewed here.), recounts the thoughts and events that befall Mat Feltner, an elderly farmer, as he walks the boundary of his family farm. This story, like so much of Berry’s work, is a powerful piece of honest writing, suffused with love and memory. I encourage you to read it, and experience the way it evokes your own musings on mortality and meaning.
Wendell Berry, Kentucky farmer, poet, novelist, and essayist, is also a prophet.
“The Boundary,” my favorite Berry short story (and included in The Distant Land, a recent compilation of his work, reviewed here.), recounts the thoughts and events that befall Mat Feltner, an elderly farmer, as he walks the boundary of his family farm. This story, like so much of Berry’s work, is a powerful piece of honest writing, suffused with love and memory. I encourage you to read it, and experience the way it evokes your own musings on mortality and meaning.
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