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Connecting the Grassroots to the Globe

February 9, 2014by Leah K. Smith Leave a comment

That American culture is city-centric doesn’t take a degree in social science to figure out.  We love our metropoles, assign character to each of them, and take a great deal […]

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Farm Life, The Movement

Loneliness, or Performing for an Audience of One

January 6, 2014by Leah K. Smith Leave a comment

The first few months I spent after graduating from college were some of the most demoralizing I had experienced in quite a long time.  Some of the reasons were obvious. […]

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The Real Work

It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come our real work,

and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

The impeded stream is the one that sings.

- Wendell Berry

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