Make 'Tiny, Loving Interventions'

What we practice every day becomes a part of who we are.

Hospital Supply Depot at Roehampton Club, Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883–1950), Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

Wendell Berry suggests that “we live in the age of divorce—not just in terms of literal marriages, but in terms of the breaking of all sorts of commitments,” Pete Davis notes on page 105 of Dedicated. In a “too-often-dissected” and “too-often-i…