About a book: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NG
“I’m just saying. It’s a complicated situation, that’s all.” Page 268 I hope this book sticks with me in my memory. It is one of the most...
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Scott Mitchell
- Sep 27, 2018
- 2 min
No longer in a hurry
Wendell Berry has this quote in an interview he did with Bill Moyer: "I'm not going to do any extensive damage here until I know what it...
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Scott Mitchell
- Sep 13, 2018
- 2 min
Life of Congruence
“Hayden seems to be at his work, or in it, as it seems to be in him, all the time... When I am talking with him, he is entirely present...
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Scott Mitchell
- Sep 4, 2018
- 4 min
About a book: American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West. By: Nate Blakeslee
“It was all about showing up.”[1] This book focuses on the wolf reintroduction into Yellowstone Park. It does so by following a wolf and...
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Scott Mitchell
- Aug 23, 2018
- 3 min
Life's work
“…that day began our life’s work of being friends.” Wendell Berry – Imagination in Place, page 112 Wendell Berry has always written well...
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Scott Mitchell
- Aug 21, 2018
- 3 min
About a book: Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
If you would like to understand poor white folk, read Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. Many people from numerous ethnicities call poor...
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Addie Gerlach
- Jul 3, 2018
- 4 min
About a Book: Washington: A Life
“He recorded that he had killed five mallards and five bald eagles in one day – a curious triumph for the Father of His Country.”[1] The...
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Scott Mitchell
- May 24, 2018
- 1 min
Endure to Maturity
I want to endure to maturity. I want to last until my life becomes solid as the rock I stand on. I want my imagination to extend...
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Scott Mitchell
- Apr 12, 2018
- 4 min
Wider than our view
“The universe is wider than our views of it.” – Henry David Thoreau (Walden, page 369) I have always been struck by the vastness of this...
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Scott Mitchell
- Apr 3, 2018
- 3 min
About A Book: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
I recently drove from Nashville to Seattle. While driving through Kansas I was reminded that I love L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard...
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Scott Mitchell
- Mar 15, 2018
- 2 min
The Long Haul
“Yeah, I guess the science that excited me was about twenty-year projects. Without that kind of time frame, I’m not sure I’m all that...
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Scott Mitchell
- Feb 22, 2018
- 2 min
A Vow of Stability
Watercolor on paper (cold press 140lb) by Monina Mitchell For the last four years I have been praying about making a vow of stability. I...
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Scott Mitchell
- Feb 8, 2018
- 3 min
A Good Logger
“A bad logger goes to the woods thinking of what he can take out. A good logger goes to the woods thinking of what he should leave.”...
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