Commentary
With Christmas just around the corner, I have been thinking cherries.
Dear Heather:
I was thinking about you the other day so I thought I’d write you a quick note.
The first word that always comes to mind when I think of you is feisty! Remember 10 or 15 years ago, the after-work drinks downtown when you were ready to take on the whole bar? Then the next morning at the Morning Glory Farm company meeting you looked pretty worn out.
Martha’s Vineyard Commission’s Lesson
With the dust still settling from the Edgartown special town meeting this week, the next task at hand is for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission to ask itself some hard, probing questions, and central among them is this: Has the commission grown out of touch with the Island community?
A Scrooge No More
From Art Railton’s Just a Thought, of December 16, 1988:
About this time each December I begin to wonder: Is Christmas worth it? Frazzled and frantic, with a long list of things still undone, presents still not bought, cards still not written, the tree to put up, I’m tempted to chuck it all in. Bah, humbug!
How did Christmas get to be so hectic? Why not go back to the “good old days,” the way Christmas used to be?
Tuesday Vote in Edgartown
Special town meetings in December are often lackluster affairs; most of the time a town considers itself lucky if a deep off-season special town meeting attracts a quorum to conduct the necessary business at hand. Usually at this time of year it is housekeeping business that leads to the need for a special town meeting — bills from a prior fiscal year that require voter approval to be paid, emergency repairs to a leaky roof on some town building.
On the Side of Angels
Lights, please. Every year Linus van Pelt asks for a spotlight and steps right in to quote the gospel of Luke and remind Charlie Brown that Christmas is not a time for fear, but of “good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.” To all people, the angels said, came a child.