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In the previous three posts I focused on the first two parts of Wendell Berry's important essay, "Solving for Pattern," for which this blog is a namesake. In this post I focus on the third part, which is where Berry identifies fourteen standards for good solutions.

Wendell Berry's essay, "Solving for Pattern," has three parts. The first part was covered in my first two posts, "Bad Solutions" and "Good Solutions." Berry begins the second part of his essay as follows: It would be next to useless, of course,

In the previous post I reviewed Wendell Berry's two "bad" solutions, one pointing to unintended consequences, and the other pointing to amplifying feedback loops. Basically, both types of solutions make the problem worse because the systems nature of the problem was not taken into account. Berry

Greetings! In the next few posts I will work through Wendell Berry's essay, "Solving for Pattern," which has been published as part of an edited collection (Norman Wirzba, ed., The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Counterpoint, 2002). It is an extraordinary

Let me kick this thing off by answering a few questions. First, Who am I? My name is David Cross, and I am Professor (Emeritus) in the Psychology Department at Texas Christian University (TCU), and I am the Co-Founder and former Director of the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child