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Here is Wendell Berry in The Hidden Wound (Boston: Houston Mifflin, 1970), pages 100-101: I am far from conceding anything to those who assume that the poor or anyone else can be improved by recourse to that carnival of waste and ostentation and greed known as "our high standard of living." As Thoreau so well knew, …
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I was standing on the edge of a mountain in central Honduras, looking over the hazy, green slopes of the valley. There were just over a dozen of us who had given up our Spring Break at college to work alongside of local Hondurans to install a gravity-fed water system in this remote village. It …
I ran across this quotation from Thomas Merton in an online article by Gordon MacDonald at Leadership Journal. It stopped me and made me think about how I live. Some of us need to Discover that we will not Begin to live more Fully until we have the Courage to do and see And taste …
Matthew Erickson 