On “tyrannese”: A fake interview with Wendell Berry
Well, it’s been a disorienting couple of weeks under the new regime, and while sales of George Orwell’s 1984 pushed the dystopian novel into…
A common treasury for all
Editor’s Note: This essay is the last in a series of three. Part one explored the differences between the money code of value and…
Breeding for profit
Editor’s note: A portion of this essay was originally published in Geez Magazine, issue 17. It is currently part two of a three-part series,…
A question of value(s)
Editor’s Note: The following essay is part one in a series of three that will explore the implications of different types of values for…
Encounter
The wave of tension that tightened the spines of the thirty-odd commuters on the platform is familiar to any urbanite. I was living in…
How to be here?
Review: Living In The World As If It Were Home. Tim Lilburn. Cormorant Books, 1999. Most serious thought in our time struggles with the…
Recovering joy: A review of Hundred Dollar Holiday by Bill McKibben
Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no rootless Christmas trees hung with candycanes and…
Always unpacking: The Prelinger Library as Twenty-First Century archive
I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of…
By the shores of Pigeon Lake
The rhythm of farm life is shaped by the passage of the seasons. In the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario where I live, maple…
Imagining community in story and soil
Editor’s note: A portion of this essay was originally published in Geez Magazine, issue 34. Photos from “Conquest of the Land Through Seven Thousand Years,” W.C….