(Posting on Monday since Live Journal was finicky all weekend…)

We just got home from hearing Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson speak.
The topic was the sustainable food movement.

(I'll admit I went for the poetry.
I mean, Wendell Berry, people!)

And he did read a poem, and he also said a whole lot of lovely and poetic things:

praising "… the yeastiness of thought…"
claiming to be a member of "… The Society for the Preservation of Tangibility…"
and advocating for "… rules of affection …" when dealing with the land.

How would you like to have phrases like "yeastiness of thought" just roll off your tongue?
Sheesh.

So tonight I am grateful for thinkers or, rather, articulate thinkers, who inspire me to follow through on my own thoughts and put words to them when I'm able…