Sas Carey
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Ways of Seeing: Airport rote
“I hadn’t thought of this rote method for years—not until I was traveling home from Mongolia about 15 years ago.”
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Ways of Seeing: The Purple Gazebo
The Purple gazebo was built over one hundred years ago for an orphanage in Shelburne.
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Ways of Seeing: Fairytale Romania
Being in the small village of Arbore is like stepping into a fairyland.
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Ways of Seeing: Bring it all back
The ’60s saw a revival of handcrafts in Vermont. Judging from the large audience attending the Middlebury College lecture, there must be a new revival of fiber arts…
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Ways of Seeing: Watering flowers is a spiritual lesson
When I water the flowers on my deck, I am thinking how beautiful the colors are. Or maybe how hot the day has been. My goal is to…
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Ways of Seeing: Going backwards has its benefits
Middlebury used to be a place where you could get things fixed instead of buying new. It was a time before nearly everything came from chains or big…
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Ways of Seeing: The sweetness of town meetings
Unlike the divisive national political scene which gives me a stomachache and makes it hard for me to speak with my neighbor and another close friend, the Middlebury…
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Ways of Seeing: Knitting a relationship together
For interests on my Match.com profile, I wrote, “I knit, run a non-profit, make documentaries, and read.” I showed this to my daughter. “Knit, Mom? You put that…
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Ways of Seeing: MNFF organizers do it the right way
This month the Middlebury New Filmmakers Film Festival held a friendly cocktail hour at Middlebury Inn to thank the hosts who had given housing to this year’s filmmakers…
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Ways of Seeing: Water, from scarce to abundant
On the television is a vast landscape. The camera moves over brown spaciousness that reminds me of the Gobi Desert. I wait until the narrator identifies it as…
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Ways of Seeing: House holds history of its tenants
Rene Morin, a fine mason, built my brick house and three neighboring ones. He lived next door when we moved here in 1979.
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Ways of Seeing: Hearing aids can be life changing
What? Do you hear and ask this question often? I did, too, until recently. When my daughter visited last summer, I asked her if she thought I needed…
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Ways of Seeing: Answering spirits during new moon
On the eleventh day after the new moon, spirits call me. I am giving Grandmother Erdenchimeg an energy healing. Her back is sore after the evening reindeer milking.
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Ways of Seeing: Amid world chaos, a small victory
Sitting at Quaker Meeting one recent Sunday morning, I heard messages about the horror in Israel and Gaza and how we as peacemakers might help. I could not…
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Ways of Seeing: Many pitched in to help burn survivor
In July, I traveled to Mongolia again, hoping to interview the various protagonists in my documentaries.
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Ways of Seeing: Trip puts priorities in perspective
It begins with a nail. I’m trying to stay calm and focused and mindful. I know I leave for Mongolia in two weeks, and I haven’t been there…