Commentary
FISHING FRIENDLY
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The angry red swath on the NOAA map shows Earl’s path northward. As I write this, on Wednesday, it’s not clear what he intends — but already I can sense something in the air. The calm, sticky weather we’ve been having for the last few days is heavy with portent. Signs lurk in the quiet all around. Where are the songbirds? Even geese flying overhead seem to be hurrying to shelter. My imagination is pictured with memories of other hurricanes.
“Come in Walter, come in now!”
Requiem for Little Guy
Love’s embrace
Held thee
A short while — almost weightless.
Fly away
Little Soul
On butterfly wings.
Frail veil
Of human life
Slipped through love’s fingers — voiceless.
Fly high
Little Guy
On angel’s wings — all breathless.
Editor’s Note: A divided Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this week ruled, four to two, that the State Energy Facilities Siting Board had the power to overrule the Cape Cod Commission and grant a so-called super permit to the developers of the controversial Cape Wind project. Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall wrote a dissenting opinion, alongside Associate Justice Francis X. Spina. What follows is an excerpted text of the dissent by Chief Justice Marshall. A longtime seasonal resdent of West Tisbury, the chief justice will retire this fall.
It appeared out of nowhere on a calm, clear morning last July — the largest seagull I have ever seen, with a black back and a bright orange beak — sitting motionless on the verdant front lawn of our rental overlooking Stonewall Beach.
There aren’t too many men who go into home health care, but Hank Sjostrom (pronounced Sherstrom) has been in it since the 1960s, helping people and in turn helping himself.