New Year in Scotland, known as Hogmanay, arguably from Old French, Norse, and/or Goidelic, is a very big deal. Several nights of partying, fireworks, the singing of “Auld Lang Syne,” […]
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Blessing of the Shearwaters
Late on a fall day, an unpredictable wonder of the sea is revealed
In Edinburgh, the cherry trees have lost their leaves. Golden and carnelian-colored, they carpet the grass and fill the gutters like heaps of slender sunset fish. We will watch the […]
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
An Ode to Not Knowing
Try to remember what it was like to not have every answer close at hand
It is a familiar enough occurrence in my line of work: a client admits to being lost, without direction, not knowing where to go or what to do. It is […]
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
Animal Magic in the Marsh
A shamanic excursion to land’s end
Because she possesses a kind of shamanic animal magic, when Rina said she wanted to go for a bike ride with me, I let her lead the way. At the […]
ENVIRONMENT
Standstill on the Breakwater as West End Moors Decline
Army Corps has been waiting for a year for go-ahead on new study
PROVINCETOWN — Science and government tend to be slow-moving, but the purple marsh crab moves fast, gobbling up the spartina grass of the West End Moors. Spartina grass holds the […]
URGENT CARE
Provincetown’s Moors Are Dying
Action is needed as purple crabs make the West End marsh disappear
As a longtime visitor to Provincetown, I have been nourished in many ways by its natural and cultural beauty, but nothing here has touched me as deeply as the salt […]
