Ways of Seeing
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Ways of Seeing: Gaye’s musical message endures
Recently, I got the urge to listen to Marvin Gaye’s album “What’s Going On?” I’m fortunate enough to own the CD and, yes, I still have a CD…
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Ways of Seeing: The look of love is in his eyes
Our cat Buster loves meat. Raw meat. We adopted him because he was cute and cuddly, and because my husband fell in love with him.
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Ways of Seeing: On preventing future suffering
I taught my first yoga classes over thirty years ago, when my teacher and mentor Gayna took her annual two-month long winter trip to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and asked…
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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: Universal primary care a vital step
In the past few years, we have heard, with growing alarm, the concern that changing demographics in Vermont will soon spell disaster.
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Ways of Seeing: Women and the future of farming
This Christmas Day something remarkable happened on our farm: at 4 p.m. chore time three generations of women headed out to the barn to do our milking and…
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Ways of Seeing: Phone call led to expanded family
It was almost thirty years ago when we received a phone call from Indonesia. While we did not know the person calling, she was actually a Vermonter from…
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Ways of Seeing: Spontaneity adds joy to traveling
This past summer my family and I went on a trip to France. We went partly to indulge my Dad’s desire to see some of the Tour de…
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Ways of Seeing: Thankful for wheel of dark and light
Well, it happened again. Sunday night it started raining and just kept on.
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Ways of Seeing: Older workers are part of the equation
A few weeks ago, I read a New York Times article that both intrigued and annoyed me: “Vermont May Be the Face of a Long-Term U.S. Labor Shortage.”
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Ways of Seeing: The piano can be a refuge
I rarely play the piano anymore, but there are times it brings me home.
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Ways of Seeing: Challah bread for the senator
Yesterday, Peter Welch joined the call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and today we will be bringing him a fresh loaf of challah bread to say thank…
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Ways of Seeing: Community caring builds peace
It was the summer of ‘68. Cities across America were erupting in riots, political differences were tearing families apart, the war in Vietnam was raging, protesters at the…
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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: ‘Freedom’ is in the eye of the beholder
The little saucer landed gently in my side yard and the little green creature hopped out onto the lawn.
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Ways of Seeing: An ode to keeping old windows
While sustainability in building and construction has been around for a while now, one aspect that people are starting to take into account is the idea of embodied…