<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello poets, mystics, madmen and friends,<div><br></div><div>On Tuesday, January 23rd, at 6pm and 8:15PM, the Guild Cinema will be showing "Look & See - A cinematic portrait of Wendell Berry, Farmer and Activist". At a wallet-friendly $5, you won't want to miss this! <a href="http://guildcinema.com/movie/2116">http://guildcinema.com/movie/2116</a><div><br></div><div>In conjunction with the film, we'll have a discussion of the issues raised and on our community efforts to bring resilience, sovereignty and wholesome foods to our community. If you have never heard of Wendell or read any of his works, then I recommend you start with this one he wrote in '73:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="ic_article-title entry-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; font-size: 28px; border: none; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 30px; text-align: -webkit-center;"><a href="https://www.context.org/iclib/ic30/berry/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front</a></h1><h4 class="ic_byline" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; font-size: 17px; border: none; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-center;">By Wendell Berry</h4></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; font-size: 15px; border: none; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;">Love the quick profit, the annual raise,<br>vacation with pay. Want more<br>of everything ready-made. Be afraid<br>to know your neighbors and to die.<br>And you will have a window in your head.<br>Not even your future will be a mystery<br>any more. Your mind will be punched in a card<br>and shut away in a little drawer.<br>When they want you to buy something<br>they will call you. When they want you<br>to die for profit they will let you know.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; font-size: 15px; border: none; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;">So, friends, every day do something<br>that won’t compute. Love the Lord.<br>Love the world. Work for nothing.<br>Take all that you have and be poor.<br>Love someone who does not deserve it.<br>Denounce the government and embrace<br>the flag. Hope to live in that free<br>republic for which it stands.<br>Give your approval to all you cannot<br>understand. Praise ignorance, for what man<br>has not encountered he has not destroyed.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; font-size: 15px; border: none; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;">Ask the questions that have no answers.<br>Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.<br>Say that your main crop is the forest<br>that you did not plant,<br>that you will not live to harvest.<br>Say that the leaves are harvested<br>when they have rotted into the mold.<br>Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; font-size: 15px; border: none; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;">Put your faith in the two inches of humus<br>that will build under the trees<br>every thousand years.<br>Listen to carrion – put your ear<br>close, and hear the faint chattering<br>of the songs that are to come.<br>Expect the end of the world. Laugh.<br>Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful<br>though you have considered all the facts.<br>So long as women do not go cheap<br>for power, please women more than men.<br>Ask yourself: Will this satisfy<br>a woman satisfied to bear a child?<br>Will this disturb the sleep<br>of a woman near to giving birth?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; font-size: 15px; border: none; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;">Go with your love to the fields.<br>Lie down in the shade. Rest your head<br>in her lap. Swear allegiance<br>to what is nighest your thoughts.<br>As soon as the generals and the politicos<br>can predict the motions of your mind,<br>lose it. Leave it as a sign<br>to mark the false trail, the way<br>you didn’t go. Be like the fox<br>who makes more tracks than necessary,<br>some in the wrong direction.<br>Practice resurrection.</p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; font-size: 15px; border: none; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;"><br></div></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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