New Substack post in a summer sabbath series — considering mystery and the fall. granola.substack.com/p/be-dark-and-…

A Wendell (and Tanya) Berryian view of vacation challenges us to build a home we do not like to leave: granola.substack.com/p/become-a-lif…

This month’s newsletter continues our summer sabbath series, looking at perceptions of time and our need for kairos— substack.com/app-link/post?…

A random mother at the grocery store encouraged me to share the shopping strategy I have created with my kids—so I did: granola.substack.com/p/when-a-list-…

Cèzanne, Thoreau, and Wendell Berry on being alive — granola.substack.com/p/how-to-be-al…

The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cézanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he’s alive forever, this instant, and may be

“Our sense of being and identity is formed by our perception and understanding of where we are, by the way we name the world and ourselves.” Grace Olmstead plough.com/en/topics/just…

We increasingly use screens and technology to get through our travel itineraries as quietly and mindlessly as possible. But we are missing out on hours—sometimes days—of precious, finite time. Should we change the way we travel? Some thoughts: granola.substack.com/p/turn-off-you…

"It is hard to tell who were those hosts—them, or us? They ate from our tree, to be sure. But watching them, taking them in—that was our feast. As Berry puts it, 'our minds became beautiful by the sight of them.'" - Grace Olmstead granola.substack.com/p/the-day-the-…

“Because you hated me so deeply,” he said, “I always prayed for you.” christianitytoday.com/2025/09/enemy-…