This is what gets me about war, when you have brother Christians (if we believe they hold dear the words of silent night they were singing) killing each other at the command of their respective empires.
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I finally completed the coffee table I’ve been working on for the past few weeks when I wasn’t in Zambia or doing the job I actually get paid to do. All in all, I’m really happy with the way it came out!
It’s also posted over on the Woodlum Co. Facebook page and the Woodlum Co. Etsy page.
This video needs no caption, but I’m writing this anyway.
These ways of marriage, kinship, friendship, and neighborhood surround us with forbiddings; they are forms of bondage, and involved in our humanity is always the wish to escape … But involved in our humanity also is the warning that we can escape only into loneliness and meaninglessness.
– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace | Men and Women in Search of Common Ground p.141
More and more it has seemed to me that the idea of an individual, the idea that there is someone to be known, separate from the relationships, is simply an error.
– Mary Catherine Bateson quoted by Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace | Men and Women in Search of Common Ground p.138
Neither marriage, nor kinship, nor friendship, nor neighborhood can exist with a life expectancy that is merely convenient.
– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace | Men and Women in Search of Common Ground p.136
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