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Wendell Berry and the Given Life
- By: Ragan Sutterfield, Bill Mckibben – foreword
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For the past 50 years, Wendell Berry has been helping seekers chart a return to the practice of being creatures. Through his essays, poetry, and fiction, Berry has repeatedly drawn our attention to the ways in which our lives are gifts in a whole economy of gifts. Berry presents us with the sort of coherent vision for the lived moral and spiritual life that we need now. His work helps us remember our givenness and embrace our life as creatures.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Narrator is extremely ........ frustrating
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A Place on Earth
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- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oh my, what a great book
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The Memory of Old Jack
- By: Wendell Berry
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- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values of Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century.
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Beautiful Appreciation of Life
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Sacred Music
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- Length: 55 mins
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 17
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it's the same message in the East and the West.
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Daily Bread
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 52 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Farmer, ecologist, and writer Berry provides some rich and fertile ground for recreating life and culture. He speaks of enduring values, the wholeness of life and the interdependence of all creatures, especially humankind. Berry's self-discipline, ethical sense and human compassion come through as he leads us from the microcosm of his Kentucky hill farm to the macrocosm of a sane and reasoned planetary vision based on personal integrity, faithfulness, and love.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Old Interview without the usual Berry inspiration
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Nathan Coulter
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 159
This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination. When young Nathan loses his grandfather, Berry guides listeners through the process of Nathan's grief, endearing the listener to the simple humanity through which Nathan views the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, well read
- By Jenna Moon on 08-16-10
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Wendell Berry and the Given Life
- By: Ragan Sutterfield, Bill Mckibben – foreword
- Narrated by: Ragan Sutterfield
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
For the past 50 years, Wendell Berry has been helping seekers chart a return to the practice of being creatures. Through his essays, poetry, and fiction, Berry has repeatedly drawn our attention to the ways in which our lives are gifts in a whole economy of gifts. Berry presents us with the sort of coherent vision for the lived moral and spiritual life that we need now. His work helps us remember our givenness and embrace our life as creatures.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Narrator is extremely ........ frustrating
- By carly forward on 08-23-17
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A Place on Earth
- A Novel
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 152
The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oh my, what a great book
- By Molly-o on 10-21-11
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The Memory of Old Jack
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 116
Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values of Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Appreciation of Life
- By D. Farnham on 04-28-09
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Sacred Music
- Gateway to the Infinite
- By: Father Bede Griffiths, Russill Paul, Asha Paul
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
An interview with Father Bede and two musician friends becomes a profoundly moving musical excursion through the deep truths and feelings of the various spiritual traditions represented in their South Indian Christian-Hindu ashram.
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it's the same message in the East and the West.
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- By: Coleman Barks
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How does a body of poetry written in a remote part of the world find its way to best seller lists in the U.S. over 700 years later? What is the compelling quality inherent in great literature that resonates throughout the ages? Coleman Barks, poet and translator of Jelalludin Rumi's poetry, explores the genius, mystery and rapture of Rumi's work; why he has become the most-read poet in America, and what his poetry has in common with the immortal writings of Dickinson, Emerson and Thoreau.
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- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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Awakened me from my ingnorance
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Gumption
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The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the New York Times best seller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights 21 figures from our nation's history, from her inception to present day - Nick's personal pantheon of "great Americans".
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It was just ok
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Gaining Ground
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- By: Forrest Pritchard
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,048
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One fateful day in 1996, after discovering that five freight cars' worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard vows to save his family's farm. What ensues-through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters-is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard's biggest ally is his renegade father, who initially questions his son's career choice and rejects organic foods for sugary mainstream fare.
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Into the Deep
- Male Mysteries
- By: Robert Bly
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- Length: 52 mins
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An extraordinary visit with one of America's leading poets provides a unique exploration of the mystery of maleness. Bly uses fairy tales to illuminate the dark recesses of the psyche, and the result is a powerful intimation of the male experience and potential. From the soft, feminine male persona to the deeply buried wildman, Bly takes us on a journey through unmapped territory of the masculine. For men and women this is a conversation not to be missed.
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The Hidden Half of Nature
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- By: David R. Montgomery, Anne Bikle
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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A riveting exploration of how microbes are transforming the way we see nature and ourselves - and could revolutionize agriculture and medicine. Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. Good health - for people and for plants - depends on Earth's smallest creatures. The Hidden Half of Nature tells the story of our tangled relationship with microbes and their potential to revolutionize agriculture and medicine, from garden to gut.
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The Masculine Road
- The Red, White, and Black
- By: Robert Bly
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- Length: 54 mins
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Bly describes the three necessary and sequential life phases symbolized by three colors - the "red, white and black," in the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale "Iron John." He casts a penetrating light on these male life stages, describing complications that arise, for example, when a boy skips the red and goes directly to the white. He also discusses how these stages, when fulfilled, affect men's relationships with women.
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wisdom fir our lives
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William Blake and Beyond
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- Length: 54 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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"As a man is, so he sees." These words of mystical poet and artist William Blake are just as relevant now as they were when they were written in 1802 - perhaps more so. Throughout his life, Blake undertook a voyage beyond rationality and materialism to an interior, visionary realm where "all things appear as they are - infinite." Yet all human beings, he believed, are capable of opening their eyes to a fuller experience of life.
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A romp through hippy land !
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The Power of Shame
- By: Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
In this discussion, Bly talks of four sources of shame, including shame inherited from parents, grandparents, and ancestors, and shame over our bodily and creative instincts. It opens with a Russian fairy story on the Frog Princess and the shame we feel over our interior "Frog Bride." Bly and host Michael Toms discuss the new work in America on shame, most of it done during the last ten years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to understand
- By Shane on 06-08-12
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Rumi
- Poet of Divine Ecstasy
- By: Coleman Barks
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 50 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18
Drunk with the Divine, Rumi wrote 20,000 poems of mystical, ineffable love of God. "There is a ferocity in his longing that maybe we don't understand," says Barks. Listen in and understand a little better. A wondrous, exhilarating look at the exultant poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi, the 13th century Sufi poet, with Coleman Barks.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Shamz/Rumi meet Barks
- By James on 05-08-15
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The Human Shadow and What Stories Do We Need?
- By: Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Robert Bly
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Robert Bly - one of the most compelling mythologists and storytellers of our time - captures the imagination in two live recordings. In The Human Shadow, Bly takes us on a thought provoking and entertaining journey exploring our "shadow" through poetry, music, and storytelling. What Stories Do We Need? reminds us that the mythology we have inherited is often defective. Just as the church refused to accept the reality Galileo saw in his telescope, literalists have removed the dark soul images that nourished our ancestors from mythology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bly is my greatest living hero
- By IW, Albuquerque on 04-05-16
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Start Your Farm
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- By: Forrest Pritchard, Ellen Polishuk
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies, Coleen Marlo
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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More than a practical guide, Start Your Farm is a hopeful call to action for anyone who aspires to grow wholesome, environmentally sustainable food for a living. Take it from Forrest Pritchard and Ellen Polishuk: Making this dream a reality is not for the faint of heart, but it's well within reach - and there's no greater satisfaction under the sun.
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Inspiring Book for Entrepreneurs
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- E. Faison
- 07-21-18
Profound and rich with insight. Simple
this is incredible. It’s the most profound thing I’ve ever heard about community, friendships, loving others, living a full life using your gifts and passions.
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- Qvrfullmidwife
- 06-25-18
So needed
The message in this short interview is absolutely essential to life...But being lost. When it is lost, our society is irremediably harmed.