Greetings Neighbors and Strangers,
I write with two brief corrections. The details for next week’s Peasantry School Community Call did not make it into yesterday’s newsletter. I offer my sincere apologies for any confusion that may have caused. Here is the correct information:
Peasantry School Community Call
Monday 3/18 at 3pm Eastern Daylight Time (7pm London GMT) for 90 minutes
Zoom Link click HERE
And here is the description again:
This week’s letter, Dying Into Gratitude, turned into a long-winded introduction for an event that has me trembling with excitement. For this month’s Peasantry School Community Call I will be speaking with Kathryn Edwards about her work as a funeral celebrant. She doesn’t cremate or embalm bodies; she walks alongside the grieving friends and family members, helping them to craft a ceremony with as much Life-feeding gratitude as they can muster. She works as a ritualist in rapidly-rationalizing England, which can feel like swimming upstream. The marketplace is a poor fit for the culture work she labors to uphold. The same could be said for the neighborly farming and feeding practices I write about in this newsletter—that’s the segue.
How will culture workers be sustained if the society in which they live suggests they go find a real job?
There will be opportunities for participants to join in the conversation, but feel free to show up simply to listen.
Secondly, I tried to rely on memory when quoting
and the sentence came out just a few degrees off. I first heard him say this sentence aloud and then read it in his remarkable book, At Work In The Ruins: “The end of the world as we know it is also the end of a way of knowing the world.” After reading through the book twice I decided I was ready to lend it out. Hence the misquote. To read Dougald’s words in the context of the newsletter story, click HERE.With care, Adam
Won’t be able to make this one! Sounds like such an interesting topic so am looking forward to hearing what you take from it.
I don't think you were entirely wrong, as I believe I've heard Dougald say it the other way as well....