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The Part Where We Eat (opens the original)
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Right before he died last spring, my dad was eating applesauce he made.He loved it and kept saying it was good.I wrote about that in a poem.There is a joy and a purity in eating applesauce with him.This thing, where you eat somethingand it just tastes like sunshine.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xeIn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimag
Going Out in the Rain (opens the original)
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Over the years on this land, I have learned one thing: I simply cannot make decisions about how the water movesfrom my cozy kitchen window.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="870.9615384615385" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ai
Wendell Berry and the Branch in My Gully (opens the original)
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When I first moved here, the gullies in my food forest were often bare dirt when it rained.I have been tired lately, and I keep thinking about those gullies.I could have dug them deeper and created a bigger channel for the water.Instead, I put rocks, branches, and leaves in them.That slows the water down.Cost: zero dollars. What I needed was literally lying on the ground.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LZhZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progres
The Pottery Class Experiment (opens the original)
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I spent years in a classroom and one of the things I know is that you must make it safe to fail. And that you make learning and growth feel like play. I was thinking about this because I was on a call the other day with someone and she talked about a story: There were two groups of students in a pottery studio. And one group was told to make as many pots as possible. And the other group was told to make the best pots possible. Can you guess which group improved
Soap Box Derby (opens the original)
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