Ghost hunter Joni Kosmach points a hand-held infrared camera into the shadows. Black, metallic, and blinking with strange energy, it looks like something a Navy SEAL might wield — or a character in “The X Files.” “Is there anyone with us?” Kosmach asks. “Would anyone like to talk to us today?” Crouching on the cement […]
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Persephone on the Sagamore Bridge
The sadness of leaving one set of pleasures for another
Driving west over the Sagamore Bridge in early October, heading back to Chicago, I sighed as I realized I was once again doing my biannual Persephone act. Ah, but which side of the bridge is the Underworld? There’s the rub. In terms of the calendar, I was going from the light of summer to the […]
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Forest-Dwellers on the Outer Cape
The enchantment of living on borrowed time
TRURO — “Autumn is over the long leaves that love us,” wrote William Butler Yeats. The first harbingers of autumn are suddenly over the Outer Cape, as we see the sharpening of the colors of the water and feel the chill in the morning air. But the Outer Cape has become more permanently autumnal, as […]
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What Tarot Foretells
The Ten of Swords loosens our logical minds
Artists, poets, therapists, fortune-tellers all understand that the urge to uncover meaning in an apparently random arrangement is an aspect of the human condition. We long for personal messages whispered to us in the patterns of the wordless world — stars, dreams, inkblots, playing cards, smoke swirls, serendipities, coincidences, or even someone’s gaze. At the […]
