Plough Quarterly

If you haven't read Guite's "In Defense of Pint and Pipe," what are you doing with your life? @Plough 2/2 plough.com/en/topics/life…

Two Poems by Jane Greer, whom we recently lost. May the Perpetual Light shine upon her. plough.com/en/topics/cult…

“Some people claim you cannot grow without suffering. But I have also seen pain break noble spirits. It’s not always inversely correlated. Neither is it always in tandem, a one-to-one positive increase in each.” —Aberdeen Livingstone plough.com/en/topics/life…

“Of course, everyone cleans the house, does dishes, and other things we all do, but we encourage each person to find and develop a specific area she loves. You want people to be passionate about something. You do not want a community of sad people!” plough.com/en/topics/just…

“Until agriculture begins to work in concert with these processes, paying attention to the soil’s needs, weeds will continue to remind us to change how we treat the earth.” —Ragan Sutterfield plough.com/en/topics/just…

“Only in confronting death can earthly love learn its true extent, its immortality. Any definition of health that is not silly must include death. The world of love includes death, suffers it, and triumphs over it.” —Wendell Berry plough.com/en/topics/life…

The unforgettable Jane Greer. “Motherhood on the One Quiet Night”— The grief: I cannot seem to move beyond it,

“@amnesty alleges that Dow Chemical, in collaboration with both US and Indian authorities, has created a ‘sacrifice zone’ in the area, where over half a million people, across generations, continue to suffer.” —Cristiano Denanni plough.com/en/topics/just…

“I want to be free. If it’s going to work this time, it has to feel like freedom. It has to feel like letting go.” I had unknowingly spoken the first three steps of A.A., famously known as: “I can’t. God can. I think I’ll let him.” —Jaime N. Green plough.com/en/topics/life…

“A vision of community that only works under idealized circumstances might well undermine the actual calling of people whose lot is more likely to be the transience of the suburbs than a multigenerational family farm.” —Laura Trimble plough.com/en/topics/just…

“As with the Bible, this book is not to be read alone, or lived alone, but embodied in community. Will we take up and read – and live?” —Paul Louis Metzger *Called to Community* is this week's free ebook for subscribers: plough.com/en/topics/comm…

“Within seconds, a poisonous cloud spread across Bhopal. That night alone, at least 2,259 people died, and in the days and weeks that followed an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 more people died, with over 500,000 people seriously sickened.” —Cristiano Denanni plough.com/en/topics/just…

These poems by Jane Greer published by @Plough mean a great deal to me as a parent: "Help me be mild. The good in me please amplify" @NorthDakotaJane will be missed by many. plough.com/en/topics/cult…

"The Sermon on the Mount… how incomparably more beautiful it was than the Communist Manifesto!" "How very different was His treatment of sinners – Mary of Magdala, the woman taken in adultery, the publicans – from the police methods in force in the USSR!" plough.com/en/topics/fait…

Forty years after history’s worst industrial accident, survivors still live in its shadow. By Cristiano Denanni plough.com/en/topics/just…

fascinating article. there is much to be healed, externally and internally. a little observation and imagination can often illuminate a clear path to restoration

Definitely recommended.

“As a mother, I lack finesse. I am rough-hewn and silent. I look with my crude silence, with my empty gaze, at that equally crude face, my son’s. I don’t feel anything because this is what heavy, indivisible love must be.” —Clarice Lispector plough.com/en/topics/cult…