by Harry Holdorf | Mar 21, 2014 | Blogs, Harry Holdorf
It’s a hackneyed cliché that great poets, writers, thinkers, are seldom recognized by their contemporaries. Cultures are so caught up in their own little dioramas, the bigger pictures often pass by unseen. Perhaps future generations will recognize Wendell Berry as the...
by Harry Holdorf | Mar 5, 2014 | Blogs, Harry Holdorf
There was this hairy, black, long, rounded mucus-covered package come slowly sliding out the rear end of a angus cow, standing alone in the middle of a spring-green Carolina meadow. Momma slowly turned and began licking and nudging the gently moving life package, and...
by Harry Holdorf | Feb 25, 2014 | Blogs, Harry Holdorf
What with the recent state-by-state recreational pot legalizations, I thought I’d look up my buddy Billy Weed from fifty years ago, and see what he’s thinking these days. I found him retired, living in a drafty old farmhouse in western Tennessee, enjoying feeding the...
by Harry Holdorf | Feb 16, 2014 | Blogs, Harry Holdorf
Declaring himself a commodity trader, dabbling in sentimental feelings, he would up and say to someone: “Do you feel the majesty of a carrot plant? The bright tubular orange, the intricately green tiny filigreed top, the blue hue, over the dancing broken top leaves,...
by Harry Holdorf | Feb 15, 2014 | Blogs, Harry Holdorf
It’s been such a struggle for me to admit to the possibility that the last century’s horrendous global unnatural inhuman activity may serve a higher purpose. For a life-long Green Environmentalist such as myself, it’s a lot of crow to eat: to think that the dude...
