I was not surprised when I heard that Wendell Berry had died. I’d had the opportunity of spending some time with him a couple decades ago, and I know his family and a number of people close to him now and had heard he was failing in health. He made it to the age of […]
Tag Archives: literature
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May
May
The term “intellect” is often associated with a narrow sector of human life: the academic. It may even be associated with empty erudition in contrast to the solid realism of common sense. Boethius defined a person as an individual substance of a rational nature. Does that strike you as an impoverished way to think of […]
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Dec
Dec
I have fond memories of waking up on Christmas morning, the realization slowly dawning on me that our house had been visited during the night, and that presents had been left under the tree. This was mysterious to me and magical. And the mystery became both more complex and more magical the older and more […]