Inner Voices
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Giving Thanks Is the First Step
Sometimes you have to separate the hype from the essentials
Let’s face it: most of us are not walking around feeling thankful; it’s just not in our nature. We more often concentrate on what we don’t have than what we […]
ENCOUNTERS
Making Space at the Table
A Thanksgiving with Afghan refugees embodied the spirit of the holiday
Last year I celebrated Thanksgiving in the Hyannis home of my friends David and Paloma McLardy, immigrants from Scotland and Spain, respectively. They put a few tables together in their […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Thankfully, It’s Sagittarius Season
The better for giving and receiving the gift of gratitude
Unbutton and relax, you cosmic cranberries. With a four-planet stellium in soft-bellied Sagittarius, Thanksgiving Day hits the spot. Feel free to go back for seconds. Coasting on the unseen beams […]
VIGNETTE
Bingeing
STEAMERS
Starved The Beast
WINGS OF CHANGE
Why I Ran the New York City Marathon
At mile 20, a small act of kindness changed everything
People say that when you decide to run your first marathon you better do it for the right reason. My first marathon was 11 days ago in New York City. […]
COUNTY LINE
Provincetown’s Sewer Epiphany
Voters accept the dual reality of climate change and the need for more housing
A remarkable consensus developed last week at Provincetown’s special town meeting. A packed town hall auditorium agreed, nearly unanimously, to commit $75 million to an ambitious effort to make this […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
There’s a New Moon Party in Sagittarius
A stellium of planets makes for stellar favors
Shoot for the Moon, fellow cosmo-nuts! With a lucky new Moon in Sagittarius on Nov. 23, we are baptized in optimism. New Moons, as we know, are portals through which […]
STEAMERS
Mammogram Industrial Complex
VIGNETTE
Frost Warning
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Dogs Eating Dogs
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Beeches, Whales, and Salt Marshes
The natural world now depends on us
The funk of decomposing autumn leaves and the whiff of wood smoke are in the air. Fall colors are seeping through the woods — the scarlet leaves of the tupelo, […]
