Easter Weekend

Good Friday, Heather made two pies: blueberry and meat. This reminded me of a T-shirt that I picked up several years ago in Port Moody, BC.

Saturday, we started to reorganize the bookcases. There were many discoveries. Not the least, my collection of books by Wendell Berry and Theodore Roszak. I have included a list of references, in case there are any interested readers.

Once the snow squalls finished, we could return to the orchard. First, to add fertilizer (worm castings) around each tree, and then Sunday, to cut the young saplings from the hedgerows which were encroaching on our Apple trees.

This morning (Sunday) I received my weekly Brain Pickings. It contained two interesting links.

“ Anne Lamott’s wondrous letter to children about books as antidotes to isolation, portals to perspective and crucibles of self-discovery.”

“James Gleick’s splendid reading of and reflection on Elizabeth Bishop’s poem about the nature of knowledge.”

Bishop was born in Great Village, Nova Scotia.

I sent the first link for my grandson in Petawawa. And the second to Sandra Barry, a leading figure in the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia. Earlier in the week, Sandra had sent me a link to an interesting paper on the Spanish flu epidemic (Dr Alan Marble — Spanish Flu Lecture 2019).

If the weather holds, we can look forward to further work in the orchard.

Perhaps we can take the boundary back to the old stone wall. If the weather keeps us indoors, then there are many more books to rediscover. Some will head off to second-hand bookstores; others are ‘keepers’ and will be worth revisiting.

Postscript

We did finish watching CBC Gem’s Mother, Father, Son (eight, 45-minute episodes).
It is about the impact of fathers on their sons, in a somewhat fictitious British context.

Acknowledgements

Heather for her culinary skills. Sandra Barry for her comments on the blog.
Edward for his additions and feedback.

References

Wendell Berry. 1977. The Unsettling of America: culture and agriculture. Sierra Club Books.
Wendell Berry. 1983. A Place on Earth. North Point Press.
Wendell Berry.2000. Life is a Miracle. Counterpoint.
Wendell Berry. 2002. The Art of the Commonplace. Counterpoint.
Theodore Roszak.1969. The Making of a Counter Culture. Doubleday.
Theodore Roszak. 1972. Where the Wasteland Ends. Doubleday.
Theodore Roszak.1978. Person/Planet. Doubleday.
Theodore Roszak. 1986. The Cult of Information. Lutterworth Press.
Theodore Roszak.1993. The Voice of the Earth. Bantam Press.
Theodore Roszak. 2009. The Making of an Elder Culture. New Society.