Charles van Heck's Woodhull Journal

New York state

  • A Baker’s Tale

    Take an early morning walk down Evoraberg’s Main Street when the only stoplight in town is flashing yellow. The glow of street lights create haloes on the road. Darkened storefront display windows stare empty-eyed as if in a trance. A car slips past, its tires whine as it fades into the predawn darkness. The October

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  • The Ties That Bind: The Earthly Gifts and the Stories We Need to Hear

    In the American imagination, small town, rural living offers a slower lifestyle in close knit communities, and affordable living. This idealized perception misses the deeper reality of humanities place in creation. Wendell Berry succinctly captures this when he observes: “Old Chinese landscape paintings reveal, among towering mountains, the frail outline of a roof or a

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