In this episode of The Membership, David and John discuss a book that is an unusual in the Port William series -- it's about a mouse, and is sometimes classified as a children's book -- but still feels right at home. That book? Whitefoot: A Story from the Center from the World, by Wendell Berry. We talk about the experience of compressing the imagination to the size of a mouse, where this book sits among Berry's other works, and why the realization that one lives at the center of the world is "the world's profoundest thought." And much more.

"Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World" The Membership: A Wendell Berry Podcast

SHOW NOTES AND LINKS

"Whitefoot" in Orion Magazine
Website of illustrator Davis Te Selle
"Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel," by Carl Safina
"Black Elk Speaks," by John G. Neihardt
"Another Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013-2023," by Wendell Berry

THE MEMBERSHIP ONLINE

The Membership Podcast Online
The Berry Center
The Rabbit Room Podcast Network
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