I'm Warren Smith and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with Grace Onstead.

She's the author of the new book, Uprooted, recovering the legacy of the places we've left

behind.

There's so much in this scripture about Thanksgiving and operating from a position of gratitude

for what you've been given and I think something I realized is I didn't grow up in a wealthy

family or a wealthy area and yet I have received so many blessings and I think it's easy

for us to forget the blessings that just from being a part of a good community, a place

in which you feel you are welcomed and loved and cared for.

And I think there's just a huge promise in that and in the fact that those small efforts,

those little things, those tiny crops can bear such good fruit and so that is something

I think we can and should highlight and consider in our own lives to the degree that we can.

It's become something of a cliche to say that we live in a fragmented and disjointed time.

The rise of the automobile and radio and television in the early 20th century and the internet

in the late part of the 20th century are just a couple of examples of the remarkable technological

advances that we've made in the past 100 years.

And for most people on planet Earth, the quality of life when measured in strictly economic

terms has improved somewhere between significantly and dramatically.

But the progress has been uneven and even those who have benefited have sometimes mourned

a sense of loss, a loss of community, a loss of connectedness.

Those on both the left and the right have felt this loss and have tried to propose solutions.

The agrarian movement of the 1930s, the environmental movement of the 1960s and beyond.

The rise of localism and new urbanism in the 1990s have all attempted to diagnose the

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