# wendell berry (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover wendell berry. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Walk Up The Malvern Hills](https://seanbreslin.jp/2026/08/09/a-walk-up-the-malvern-hills/) _2026-08-09 · Sean · seanbreslin.jp_ You can see the Malvern Hills easily from most of Worcestershire on a clear day. They aren't the largest hills in the country by a long margin. Worcestershire Beacon, the highest point, tops out at 425 metres. But the view from the top can be stunning. You can see right across into Wales. ## [The UK 2026](https://seanbreslin.jp/2026/08/07/the-uk-2026/) _2026-08-06 · Sean · seanbreslin.jp_ Tomorrow will be a week since my daughter and I arrived in the UK. I’ve stopped referring to it as “going back” to the UK because I’ve probably now spent more of my life outside the country than in it. This time last year St. George’s flags were appearing overnight all over the place. Looking \[…\] ## [By heart: Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver](https://excellentjourney.net/2026/07/30/by-heart-why-i-wake-early-by-mary-oliver/) _2026-07-30 · Eric Johnson · Excellent Journey_ Clearly, I like Mary Oliver. I can’t help but imagine Mr. Rogers reciting this poem. And that recommends it, I say. I do wake early, but I attribute that to my age rather than any self-discipline. (I haven’t used an alarm to wake me in many years.) This poem, I hope, will be a helpful \[ \] ## [Fuji Rock, Then Two Printers](https://seanbreslin.jp/2026/07/30/fuji-rock-then-two-printers/) _2026-07-29 · Sean · seanbreslin.jp_ Fuji Rock, Massive Attack, and why I'm packing two portable printers instead of a camera bag for a month in the UK. ## [Wendell Berry Quote](https://seanbreslin.jp/2026/07/22/wendell-berry-quote/) _2026-07-21 · Sean · seanbreslin.jp_ This quote just surfaced in a Readwise email I received this morning, based on highlighted notes from my digital edition of the book. It seems fitting for the photography world nowadays. I’m just as guilty as the next person. “This sport is less describable as “fishing” than as “using equipment.”” Wendell Berry – Our Only \[…\] ## [Rucking in Japan’s Summer Heat](https://seanbreslin.jp/2026/07/21/rucking-in-japans-summer-heat/) _2026-07-21 · Sean · seanbreslin.jp_ A friend told me about Lems barefoot shoes a few months ago and said I should buy a pair. I looked online and found nothing in stock in Japan in my size, 26.5cm, because apparently every man in this country wears the same size I do. Eventually I found a pair on Mercari for ¥8000. \[…\] ## [Effort v Reward](https://seanbreslin.jp/2026/07/04/effort-reward/) _2026-07-03 · Sean · seanbreslin.jp_ It’s been quite a while now since I’ve been up the Chuo Alps, and to be honest, I’m not sure I have the same enthusiasm I had a few years ago. Flicking through Naoki Ishikawa’s books is making me reconsider though. The issue is the effort versus reward. I’m not sure it’s worth it. But \[…\] ## [By heart: The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth](https://excellentjourney.net/2026/06/30/by-heart-the-world-is-too-much-with-us-by-william-wordsworth/) _2026-06-30 · Eric Johnson · Excellent Journey_ I’m coming in late with June’s poem. This Wordsworth sonnet is appealingly compact, but packs a potent poetic punch. (I actually went to the university library to find this on the shelf. It was like going back in time—walking through the stacks, smelling the old books. I was flummoxed at first that there was no \[ \] ## [What Nobody Else Can Claim](https://seanbreslin.jp/2026/06/23/what-nobody-else-can-claim/) _2026-06-22 · Sean · seanbreslin.jp_ Last week I wrote this post about being completely exhausted by online everything — the constant noise, the relentless feed. Then I read this, which made me realise I don't care about 99% of what's online. Not everything, but most things. ## [The Language of Drought and Duty](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/06/the-language-of-drought-and-duty/) _2026-06-01 · Colin Gillette · The Feed Store Archives - Front Porch Republic_ Sometimes, God does not simply give or withhold. Sometimes He rearranges who belongs where. ## [Stream Torrents & IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SlfMOnYbTSZT) _2026-06-01 · **Sponsored**_ Search magnet links and stream movies, music, books, and live TV in-browser ## [By heart: The More Loving One by W.H. Auden](https://excellentjourney.net/2026/05/21/by-heart-the-more-loving-one-by-w-h-auden/) _2026-05-21 · Eric Johnson · Excellent Journey_ Wystan Hugh (W.H.) Auden was a giant of poetry in the twentieth century. He’s described as a genuinely warm, gregarious, and kind person who was funny and unpretentious while being rigorous with his writing schedule and a prolific creator. This poem, my choice for May, certainly has a twinkle of whimsy. It’s clever and fun, \[ \] ## [The Hardware Store](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/05/the-hardware-store/) _2026-05-20 · Lenny Wells · The Feed Store Archives - Front Porch Republic_ The hardware store’s customers aren’t just customers. They aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet. They are its neighbors. ## [The Prospect of a Meat-Free Future](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/05/the-prospect-of-a-meat-free-future/) _2026-05-15 · Garth Brown · The Feed Store Archives - Front Porch Republic_ There are problems that we do not have the luxury of waiting for lab-grown burgers to solve. ## [By heart: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— by Emily Dickinson](https://excellentjourney.net/2026/04/17/by-heart-tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant-by-emily-dickinson/) _2026-04-17 · Eric Johnson · Excellent Journey_ For April I’m memorizing this little poem by Emily Dickinson, which both describes and demonstrates her approach to poetry and art in general. And maybe her approach to her own enigmatic life—indirect, oblique, original with a beguiling slant. This approach is what the filmmaker Stanley Kubrick explains more explicitly: “If you really want to communicate \[ \] ## [Gardening and the Moral Life](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/04/gardening-and-the-moral-life/) _2026-04-03 · Reid Makowsky · The Feed Store Archives - Front Porch Republic_ For humility, there is nothing like gardening. ## [Think good thoughts: Mind control to save your soul](https://excellentjourney.net/2026/03/28/think-good-thoughts-mind-control-to-save-your-soul/) _2026-03-28 · Eric Johnson · Excellent Journey_ “The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” –Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.16 I woke up one morning a couple of years ago from a dream state that seemed to be channeling the thoughts and voice of the main character from the novel I \[ \] ## [By heart: The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry](https://excellentjourney.net/2026/03/21/by-heart-the-peace-of-wild-things-by-wendell-berry/) _2026-03-21 · Eric Johnson · Excellent Journey_ I’ve dithered away much of March with no poem calling to me. I have settled on this Wendell Berry poem, for its brevity and its aptness for times of uncertainty. Though, has there ever been a time of certainty? Of course, change and insecurity are constants. But the ability to rest yourself in the comfort \[ \] ## [Living in Ælfric’s Orchard](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/living-in-aelfrics-orchard/) _2026-03-20 · Reid Makowsky · The Feed Store Archives - Front Porch Republic_ We should remind ourselves of our eternal home by making an image of it, not as an idol but as an icon. ## [By heart: O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman + Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address](https://excellentjourney.net/2026/02/12/by-heart-o-captain-my-captain-by-walt-whitman-lincolns-gettysburg-address/) _2026-02-12 · Eric Johnson · Excellent Journey_ I have an Abraham Lincoln problem. I’ve lost track of how many biographies on Lincoln I’ve read—this one more than once. I’ve got a bust of him on the window ledge by my office desk. He’s my automatic answer to the question “Who in history would you want to meet?” I have been in awe \[ \] ## [A Sign Does Not a Century Farm Make](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/02/a-sign-does-not-a-century-farm-make/) _2026-02-06 · Neil Peterson · The Feed Store Archives - Front Porch Republic_ You can’t have a farm divorced from community, and you can’t have community without people. A farm isn’t a farm without a farmer. ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/mATWlhTNpR9G) _2026-02-06 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [Why Can’t I Use What I Have?](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/01/why-cant-i-use-what-i-have/) _2026-01-30 · Holly Stockley · The Feed Store Archives - Front Porch Republic_ Lamentations 5:4 bewails, “We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.” In exile, Israel mourned the loss of free access to the land’s gifts. ## [By heart: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver](https://excellentjourney.net/2026/01/05/by-heart-wild-geese-by-mary-oliver/) _2026-01-05 · Eric Johnson · Excellent Journey_ My poem to memorize for this month is another Mary Oliver selection, one of her most well known, and a good one for the start of the year. It echoes last month s David Whyte poem a bit, with his Everything is waiting for you and her the world offers itself to your imagination . I pondered \[ \] ## [From the Editor—Local Culture 7.2: Work and Leisure](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/12/from-the-editor-local-culture-7-2-work-and-leisure/) _2025-12-12 · Jason Peters · The Feed Store Archives - Front Porch Republic_ Wading in a river and lumberjacking in the woods are at once work and play, play and work, and in this they resemble anything we might do for instrumental ends and yet, at the same time, take a great deal of pleasure in. ## [By heart: Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte](https://excellentjourney.net/2025/12/10/by-heart-everything-is-waiting-for-you-by-david-whyte/) _2025-12-10 · Eric Johnson · Excellent Journey_ David Whyte is who you would cast to play a poet in a movie. He has a wise sage aura and an amazingly resonant, warm, comforting voice. (Go listen to Rick Rubin’s conversation with him.) And it was listening to multiple David Whyte interviews that inspired me to begin memorizing poetry. Poems flow out of \[ \] ## [By heart: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost](https://excellentjourney.net/2025/11/15/by-heart-the-road-not-taken-by-robert-frost/) _2025-11-15 · Eric Johnson · Excellent Journey_ I’m memorizing one poem a month. I learned Mary Oliver’s The Journey last month. The first couple of days I worked on it I felt like I was never going to get it. Then I kept at it, and it just clicked. And I found myself saying it out loud to myself as I walked, \[ \] ## [Love and Loathing in Lawn Tractor Land](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/08/love-and-loathing-in-lawn-tractor-land/) _2025-08-28 · Zachary Michael Jack · The Feed Store Archives - Front Porch Republic_ In the ultimate form of mimesis, the well-seasoned mower who comes to know every inch of the property he maintains, also comes, in the end, to know the contours and corners of his own mind, given sufficient time. ## [What We Lose When We Lost the Plot](https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/07/what-we-lose-when-we-lost-the-plot/) _2025-07-10 · Holly Stockley · The Feed Store Archives - Front Porch Republic_ He who has a piece of ground to call his own is not truly bereft, no matter what else is lost.