“How to Save the World” by Teacake the Dog
REMEMBERING NAPI
An Elegy for Napi
As a boss Napi Van Dereck was a terror. At least in the old days when I bussed at the restaurant. Each evening would find him hunched like a hawk at the end of his bar freely opining to anyone who came by or sat next to him. Meanwhile we, the intrepid staff, bore his […]
LEARNING
Race vs. Cultural Differences at Nauset High
Lisa Brown teaches kids the path to a common denominator
Lisa Brown, a veteran teacher at Nauset Regional High School in Eastham, has a popular class with a curriculum of her own making called Exploring and Respecting Differences (EARD). Brown has observed firsthand how much interaction there is between children of different ethnicities in the school. She is able to consider how the notion of […]
Teacake's Take
A Dog’s Thanksgiving
“A Dog’s Thanksgiving” by Ellen LeBow
dia de los muertos
Must Be the Season of the Witch
the season for feeling more alive, even for the dead
That which frightens us makes us feel more alive. Politics, sex, death, the unforeseen: all things outside our control serve this purpose. It’s the end of October, the season for feeling more alive, even for the dead — a time for all the signs of death-within-life to grow reckless and vivid and in your face. […]
provincelands
Boris’s Dune Shack: Journal Notes
Where peace is broken by the urge to capture the limitless
I’ve bought time, the most beautiful thing for which we pay. Time to act out an old monkish dream of a spare cell facing out over water. Time apart, a moratorium on my own life into another, pretending to simplify, to distill. Being on an artist’s residency makes me feel attached to the many artists, […]
people
Debra Dickinson Brings Crumbling Art Back to Life
A restorer grasps overlapping layers of substance and history
WELLFLEET — The picture, painted in about 1898 by S.F.M. Badger for Capt. Lewis R. Paine, was a classic Americana image of Paine’s ship plowing a translucent sea in full-blown sail, a lighthouse stiff in the background. It was also a restorer’s nightmare. A descendant of Wellfleet’s Paine family had brought it to Debra Dickinson’s […]
