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Wendell Berry on rebuilding local economies:
“The standard by which we chose must be the health of our community- and by that we must mean the whole community: ourselves, the place we live, and all the humans and other creatures that live there with us. In a healthy community, people will be richer in their neighbors, in neighborhood, in the health and pleasure of neighborhood than in their bank accounts.
Amen, Wendall!!
(ps – Happy Inauguration Day!)
Comment by d-o — 01-20-09 @ 23.50
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