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I was recently in Bend, Oregon, where I had the pleasure of giving the keynote address to the Oregon State Library and Association conference.

It was really a lot of fun talking to 350 librarians about the wonderful world of Conspirituality that we cover on this podcast.

Bend itself is a little haven in the middle of the high desert in Oregon.

For me, it hit all the right notes.

It had fantastic food and coffee and a wonderful record store.

So if I need somewhere to live, that's going to be it.

Now that said, Portland is about the size city that I can deal with.

Moving to a smaller city at this point in my life would just be too much of a stretch given that

all of my adult life was spent in New York City or Los Angeles.

I bring that up because while visiting that bookstore, I happened to pass a collection of essays by Wendell Berry called the World Ending Fire.

I know of Berry's work. I've heard his name for decades.

And yet I've never read the man.

He was someone who in the late 1950s, coming from rural Kentucky and growing up on a farm,

decided he would make it as a writer, moved to New York City,

did that thing for a few years and then realized he really missed Kentucky.

So he moved back and he has been a farmer and a writer for the past 50 years or so.

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