Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry
Recent Writing
A little out of place, a little out of tune: on the passing of todd snider
Any kind of heaven every body doesn’t get in/Won’t seem like a heaven to me.—Todd Snider in “If Tomorrow Never Comes” The leaves are mostly off the trees now and the winter is approaching quickly…
Hillbilly Liminality, part 4: The Division Production Industry
read Hillbilly Liminality, Part 1, Hillbilly Liminality, Part 2, and Hillbilly Liminality, Part 3 I live in an inner-ring suburb of a moderately-sized Midwestern city that was once much larger and once one of the…
A Battle of Bones: What is Hillbilly Liminality?
Some words on what I mean when I talk about hillbilly liminality. My writing on this site has spoken of hillbilly liminality in three posts now, yet I haven’t defined it. Aside from its pleasant…