Wendell Berry is like grit for my fingernails, a writer who helps me breathe in the thickness of life. In his stunning essay, “Contempt for Small Places,” this farmer with a prophetic bent writes: “The health of the oceans depends on the health of rivers; the health...
Lately I’ve been reading The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry when I stumbled on the distinction that he makes between a path and a road. He writes: “The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path...
