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In this video, I'm putting together a lot of the underlying ideas that I've been presenting to you through another image. This image is one described by the wonderful Wendell Berry in an essay called "How to Make Local Culture." 

In it, he describes a simple metal bucket collecting nature's leavings, and how a magical transformation occurs inside that bucket that leads to the best and most fruitful kind of soil for planting.

That, as well as the image of the Russian nesting doll, offer me a chance to better explain what I hope you will feel empowered to do after this video series. 


Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Introductory Music
00:00:06 - Welcome to Stories that Unite in Dark Times
00:02:30 - How Stories Root and Connect Us
00:07:34 - Thank You, Wendell Berry!
00:09:40 - My Hope for You
00:12:04 - After Reading the Classics, Do This
00:13:07 - The Plague of Distraction
00:15:20 - An Alternative to Aloneness
00:16:55 - A Reading Hierarchy
00:19:58 - Literature as Experimentation
00:22:10 - What Should You Read?
00:25:03 - A Book as a Universe



Some resources I mention in the video are here below:

A collection of Wendell Berry’s essays collected by Paul Kingsnorth (https://www.amazon.com/World-Ending-F...)
Italo Calvino’s essay on why we should read the classics (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1986...)
A conversation from Plough magazine about the tranquility and wisdom of old books (https://www.plough.com/en/topics/cult...)
Last year’s video series on “Courage and Resilience in Story” (   • Resilience and Courage Through Story  )


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