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in praise of the library

Jul 17 2013
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
Prelinger The Gravity of Paper
The other day I visited an astounding library of forgotten paper. Located in San Francisco, in a large utilitarian room in a drab building, the Prelinger Library is an electrifying planetary power spot. Sparks of inspiration, adoration, amazement, and love issue [continue reading]

Parenting Possibilities: The Family Dinner Experience

Jun 24 2013
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, Especially for Kids, The Hilltowns Region
Family Dinners: Joy or Indigestion? The extensive research on the benefits of family dinners has seemed to define eating together as the make it or break it sign to raising healthy, well-adjusted children. I do agree that family meals have potential to be an opportunity to catch up on the day’s events and bond in [continue reading]

Parenting Green: Spring Ephemerals for Spring Ailments

Jun 5 2013
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, Especially for Kids, The Great Outdoors, The Hilltowns Region
Violets You know it’s spring in New England when it snows on Memorial Day weekend, right? As my family made a journey to New Hampshire for this three day weekend, a part of me was sure the odd weather was a blatant sign of the Earth being out of whack… but I was glad there [continue reading]

climate and agriculture in the USA

May 23 2013
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, Food in the Pioneer Valley
Hicks Nix Climate Fix
By TIMOTHY EGAN Everybody loves a farmer, judging by the popularity of this year’s hit Super Bowl ad about the virtues of those who coax food from dirt. And yet nobody wants to be one, with less than 1 percent of the population [continue reading]

One Clover & A Bee: A Writing Challenge for Families

May 22 2013
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, Especially for Kids, The Hilltowns Region
Big Ideas (in the Ordinary) I’ve noticed that often when we try to write, we get stuck because we think we need to write about “big” subjects. So we sit and chew on our pencil and stare into space and decide our lives just aren’t exciting enough for Art with a capital A. It’s really [continue reading]

Parenting Possibilities: A Sibling’s Love

Apr 29 2013
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, Especially for Kids, The Hilltowns Region
A Sibling’s Love One day I quietly watched my children playing with each other and realized for the first time that they have their own unique form of communication. They have an instinctual knowledge of each other I had not previously been aware of. It is an understanding only a sibling can have, almost as [continue reading]

sprouts society

Apr 26 2013
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings

Sprouts Society
Media Art at Farms in the Catskills [continue reading]

an article from the conservation world

Apr 24 2013
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
top The Faith-based, Trickle-down Model of Conservation 4.0 — Michael Soulé

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall.
He will end by destroying the earth.
                                          – – Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
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we celebrate the life of les blank

Apr 24 2013
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, Food in the Pioneer Valley
Garlic_is_as_Good_as_Ten_Mothers_Film_by_Les_Blank_Flower_FilmsMentor, relisher of life.
Les Blank, Filmmaker of America’s Periphery, Dies at 77
By Bruce Weber, Published: April 7, 2013
Les Blank, whose sly, sensuous and lyrical documentaries about regional music and a host of other idiosyncratic subjects, including Mardi Gras, gaptoothed women, garlic [continue reading]

One Clover & A Bee: A Poem for Spring

Apr 24 2013
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, The Hilltowns Region
Springtime In Your Eye I know, you thought it would never get here. Even though for many weeks the thermometer refused to creep up, and many of us (me!) were walking around hunched into jackets we had come to hate, Spring calmly went about its business: the vernal witch-hazel unfurled its yellow tatters in the [continue reading]

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