Tag: Garden

A pile of bricks is a window into the miracle of life and our sense of home.

October 10, 2013

 “A Pile of Bricks” Jimmy dumped bricks three feet from the garden’s black cherry gate.A haphazard pile like the tires burned on SR 3012 where the gray-coated mangy mutt barks when I glide by on my single speed. And not. It was slated to become a tiny wall for a fecund bed of nose-twisting garlic, a ring … More A pile of bricks is a window into the miracle of life and our sense of home.

The wonder of the ordinary: “A Pile of Bricks”

September 5, 2013

Several years ago I took a class full of graduate students outside. It was a philosophy of education seminar. We had read a few chapters from The Development Dictionary edited by Wolfgang Sachs and What Are People For? by Wendell Berry. Something in those chapters triggered a deep desire in me to take people into their attention. … More The wonder of the ordinary: “A Pile of Bricks”