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    DISPATCHES

    Postcards From the Pandemic

    Personal reports from around the world to the Outer Cape

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    During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have truly become, despite all the fear and barriers, a global family. Near or far, we are facing the same risks and many of the […]

    LOST AND FOUND

    Bringing Home a ‘Box Eternal’

    A trunk from Kentucky becomes a table on Cape Cod

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    I am going to miss the chaos of a good estate sale during this time of distancing. My strategy at such gatherings is to stand in one place, ignoring the […]

    GALLERY

    The Comforts of Home

    ‘I simply remember my favorite things’

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    Now is the time to find ways to take comfort in being at home. Here we can surround ourselves with what’s most familiar. And look at these things anew: a […]

    CAREGIVING

    Past Practices of Cookery and Hygiene

    Finding comfort in ‘simple remedies’ and suffrage sarcasm

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    I turned to old cookbooks for comfort last week, wondering what my American foremothers had done in times of crisis and scarcity. Given that our best strategy at slowing the […]

    RARA AVIS

    This Week’s Bird Sightings

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    Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 24, included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]

    CREATIVE ISOLATION

    Bridging Generations With a Memory Book

    Questions, answers, and art tell a family story

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    Making a memory book is something like writing a memoir, but much more free-form. To make one, you gather stories and images that don’t have to fit together to recreate […]

    BODY/MIND

    A Time to Voo

    A breathing exercise that brings calm

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    Amid news reports of climbing infection rates, hospital bed shortages, and people ignoring guidelines during this unprecedented time, I can feel myself contracting. Lack of control has never been my […]

    MILLION-YEAR PICNIC

    Venus, if You Will

    Finding optimism in the night sky

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    I have never met a pessimistic astronomer.” A New York Times reader recently posted this comment, inspired by another reader’s delighted account of looking through a telescope. I haven’t either. […]

    NAVIGATING BY THE STARS

    A Time to Revisit Interpersonal Connections

    Are you willing to embrace change?

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      Time to rewrite the social contract for modern times. The Sun in Aries in the 7th House of Relationship places scrutiny upon our interpersonal connections. Meanwhile, a massive conjunction […]

    PLANTCRAFT

    What’s in a Woodpile?

    How to make a holzhausen to warm your home and your spirit

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    Outer Cape winds can be unruly, knocking trees down in a tantrum. On the days following a storm, the sound of chainsaws rings through the neighborhood. But when the trees […]

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