How can a family ‘live at the center of its own attention?’
Wendell Berry’s thoughts on the good life
BY HOLLY M. BROCKMAN
If you profess to embrace family values and you shop at Wal-Mart, think again. The global economy, powered by big corporations such as Wal-Mart, destroys families with low prices made possible by low wages.
Such are the teachings of Wendell Berry, 71, a lifelong advocate of family values, sustainable agriculture and environmental stewardship. Berry’s writings promote local economies as a healthier, more eco-friendly way of life. He has authored more than 40 books and is among 35 Kentucky writers whose work is featured in a new anthology on the devastation that mountaintop removal mining has wrought in Southern Appalachia.
Berry lives, writes and farms at Lane’s Landing near Port Royal, Ky.
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