Opportunities lurk in every downturn. To recover and move forward, we must do more than scramble back to the past, we must ferret out and explore better and more secure ways to live and thrive.
Category: Opinion
Barn Talk
A curious offhand comment I heard upon first visiting Hinesburg in 1976 alluded to something called “barn talk,” a time that coincides with the first meeting of my future father-in-law, Howard H. Russell, the patriarchal namesake of the Russell Family Farm.
Brave new world
The pandemic we’re muddling through confronts each of us both with life-threatening risk and prospective opportunities for renewal.
The bell of Our Lady
One Sunday at the conclusion of the 8 o’clock service at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Charlotte, bright sun flooded the east-facing entrance of the church through the open double doors.
Death by cop
The last person Vermont executed
was Donald Demag on December
8, 1954. Demag committed two
robberies and killed two people while
doing so.
Gull Talk
If old enough, the perfunctory annual statement received from the
Social Security Administration dutifully lists one’s work history, dates and employers, from the point one needed to have “working papers.”
End of the consumer economy
At the end of World War II, the United States began to build an economy based on consumerism.
Volleyball, anyone?
Imagine a volleyball court with three
sides, a triangular net with equilateral
sides, three teams, and multiple balls being thrown back and forth between the three sides. This may help you see how the government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors juggle society’s needs.
Eurasian Milfoil—An annual or perennial problem for Lake Iriquois
The end of January might find us
paging through seed catalogs or
deciding what to plant in the garden in 2020.
Greta in Winter
This fall for only the second time in my life, I bought a new car. It’s an emission free Nissan Leaf. I named it Greta.