Ice Out is a big deal in northern New England, where we’re often four weeks into spring before the first spears of daffodils emerge from the soil, and five weeks or more before we see a yellow bloom. Ice Out means the weather really is shifting from early spring (often indistinguishable from winter), to mid-spring, […]
Living in Place
Connecting: Eulogy for A Friend
This is the text of the eulogy for my friend Jan Rutherdale I delivered yesterday at Centennial Hall in Juneau, Alaska. Once I overcame the shocking and unwelcome fact of Jan’s death, I was overtaken with a new and a forceful need to be present, to be unambiguously loving, to say yes, and to connect. […]
Spring Rises
Spring Rises: Frost blooms to mud, sap ascends, steam billows; syrup sweetens hope. Hope is not the same as impatience for snow to melt or the hyacinth’s perfume. Hope rises on wings, sings, nests, raises young again.
More About My Grandfather
I have more to say about my grandfather since last fall, when I wrote both about him sexually abusing me and about Vermont Public Radio not allowing me to say so. First of all, admitting this abuse took place has helped me see the long half-life of childhood, familial, sexual abuse on my personality and […]
Improving Town Meeting
Low attendance spurred some discussion about ways of improving Newfane’s Town Meeting. Two possibilities were raised: 1) allowing the use of remote participation via technology, and 2) changing the time and/or the day of the meeting. Technology & Remote Participation The technology issue came up unexpectedly when a member present at the meeting called a […]
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