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A Natural Resource: Our Quiet Audiosphere

The matter comes not uncommonly into conversations: how might we sustain, in our corner of southwest Virginia, those  amenities and virtues that make...

Natural Resource Preservation Plea: Preserve Our Dark Night Skies

A favorite phrase reminds me that “in wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” And I would suggest that, in the darkness of the...

An April Walk Along A Creek and Back Through Time

I have hiked Rock Castle Creek trail a few times since we moved back to Virginia in 1997, but not in April—not until...

Predator, Prey and An Egg A Day

Between April showers, the warm, calm dusk deepened toward dark. Lightning flashed soundlessly in the far distance as I slipped on my boots,...

Make Sense of Place By Knowing Where You’re From

Where are you from? No, really. This is a serious and important question to ponder for a moment, because as Wendell Berry has suggested,...

Vegetable Horrors of Childhood and Beyond

The asparagus of childhood appears in memory like dead green fingers from a cold can, and I can clearly see its gray green...