The winds came yesterday, not hurricane force, but clearly a change that comes with Fall weather here in Vermont—the trees, still mostly full of leaves, tracing it’s path. What doesn’t…
It can take only moments these days to find the peace of a good night’s sleep vaporized as the morning headlines scream at me from my screen. I’m not one…
The view from here last night of the partial lunar eclipse was beautiful. My photographs of same, not so beautiful! The web of life is always much better, of course,…
I’ve long appreciated how complex life is. One has only to consider the Monarch butterfly’s life—not just complex but impossibly so. Scientists have unravelled nearly all of that story but…
Imagine if money were not a problem. We could get the essentials attended to that many of our communities are seeing left undone. Here in Montpelier, like many parts of…
Of the many inspiring words that came out of DNC, these—gracious and powerful—from Michelle Obama when she reminded and challenged us are near the top of the list to guide…
The nearly full month since my last post has come and gone, first with travels and visits with family and then with a week of late nights absorbing the truly…
I’ve not watched TV news for years but even my daily reading of several newspapers make it clear the world continues to overflow with self-destructive turmoil, leaving many with lives…
There are not enough pieces left to assemble anything useful, anything that resembles a memory. What is there is just enough to see myself long ago with dirty tears running…
I woke this morning wondering what Elon Musk dreamt last night. Then I found myself thinking about other, similar people—Murdoch, Trump, Bezos—people who have immense impact on millions and on…
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