Author Wendell Berry transforms the ordinary of everyday into wonders too wide for comprehension. A humble barber (Jayber Crow) follows Dante’s path through 1950’s Kentucky before discovering that love and heaven dwell together. A war widow (Hannah Coulter) gives birth after her husband’s death but finds what it means to truly live. A tobacco farmerContinue reading “The Force of a Story”
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Out of the Depths
The kitten’s piteous meowing sounded weak. It had fallen down an old well in our yard. My son carefully removed the sheets of corrugated metal and peered into the grimy blackness. “It’s so far down,” he said. “I’m not sure I can get it out.” As one of my daughters went for a long-handled net,Continue reading “Out of the Depths”
Sarah Dixon Young 