Archive for August, 2008
how to avoid getting a window in your head
Four strangers sat on our couch. They were joined by six other neighbors whom I already knew. “Five to thirty is the federal minimum and maximum sentence,” we heard as we all sat in my living room last night to listen to Stank’s attorney tell us what he was looking at, time wise, and what [...]
Everyday Liturgy interview about city, emergence, and Wendel Berry
I was interviewed by Thomas Turner of Everyday Liturgy, an quarterly journal, about the impact of Wendell Berry on my work as a pastor, community organizer, and artist. I can’t believe he used as much of the interview as he did. I’m by no means a literurature critic or expert on Berry. [...]
Aperture and Wendell Berry’s “Sonata at Payne Hollow”
In Wendell Berry’s “Sonata at Payne Hollow,” Harlan and Anna are deceased lovers speaking to eachother in the present as ghosts. Anna comments to Harlan about the river that he’s “never seen enough of,” he keeps gazing upon it even after generations have come and gone. Harlan replies:
It never does anything twice. It [...]
