This Broken Country book review explores the deeply entangling ties of love, loss, and the dangerous pull of nostalgia. The Quick Take… Beth and Frank are salt and pepper, a hard laboring matched pair, working like a perfect machine on their farm. Unfortunately, a tragedy in the past keeps them from truly being open like…
I received an ARC audiobook copy of Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City by Kate Brown. The book description reads: From the eighteenth century to the twenty–first, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community. This manifesto for the next food revolution…
My struggles are small in light of those interviewed in the pages of the latest book by Beth Lueders. I felt no less connected by their struggles to find hope, peace and remain resilient in the face of adversities. How are we to Bend without being broken? Beth relates her interviews with regular folks. Like…