Inner Voices
STEAMERS
The Uncanny DALL-E
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Voice of Old Provincetown
Listening to six writers of a town’s living history
Last night I heard the voice of Provincetown. Old Provincetown. It was not one voice but six, each unique, yet they blended into a song of remembrance and regret. I […]
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 […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
A Time to Pick Up the Pieces
Make peace with Mars in retrograde
Fear not, Halloween revelers! Mars goes retrograde on Oct. 30, and it’s not as frightening as you think. Mars retrogrades only once every other year. While this one will linger […]
VIGNETTE
Time to Move Out
STEAMERS
Pilloried
MASTER PLANNING
Build a Food Forest Garden, Not a New Pool
North Eastham’s town center should be focused on giving back to the Earth
On Wednesday night last week, I attended the final North Eastham Village Center Master Plan meeting at the Eastham Public Library. The design group has done a great job so […]
COUNTY LINE
Equity Must Be Our Goal
Poverty and homelessness are here among us on Cape Cod
On WOMR’s Alternative Radio the other night, I listened to a compilation of talks by Barbara Ehrenreich, who died on Sept. 1 and is best known for her groundbreaking undercover […]
IN VIEW THIS WEEK
October Song
VIGNETTE
Start Small
SKETCHBOOK
A Field Trip to an Ancient Landscape
Imagining the Outer Cape of 6,000 years ago
What must it have been like to live on this landscape a thousand years ago, before the Europeans came here? I sketch objects in museums and map them onto the […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Errands: A Cure for Ennui
The necessity of getting together
Seasons come and go, but it is the same day always. Whatever the vagaries of weather, it is the same morning, noon, and night. The toothbrush in the mug on […]
FIRST LIGHT
‘Water Please’: A Timeless Harmony
Reflections on the continuity of life here
When Mashpee Wampanoag flautist Ej Mills Brennan told me she would be bringing her boom box along with her flutes to play on Sunday morning at Chapel in the Pines, […]
