A barn built with affection. A farm, garden, or even a yard as in front yard or back yard can be stewarded with affection. A family and its life sustained by affection. It makes a difference in our choices, our actions. Wood and Bricks from an old cotton mill built prior to the Civil War. Now Closed, Torn Down. Someone with affection for old bricks and old wood reclaimed these building materials. Offered them to us for the barn walls, a fireplace. Manufacturing today seems to offer us nothing by way of affection. our clothes, our houses, our cars, even our food is produced with efficiency, cost effective so we are told, but not affection. I wonder the high price we are paying for the loss of affection in our daily life: in our shopping, our eating including where and how we eat. Wendell Berry says: in affection we find the possibility for a neighborly, kind, and conserving economy. Berry, in 2012 delivered The Jefferson Lecture, our nations highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement. Worth reading, worth watching. For in our despair of affection lost, we find in Berrys words, hope for affection reclaimed. neh.gov/news/2012-jefferson-lecture-wendell-berry
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:58:39 +0000
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