Opinion
Anna Edey imagines a world with little need for fossil fuels, that provides us with all the comforts and technologies we currently expect and enjoy, includes ways to grow fresh food locally and allows us to keep using cars without harm to our air, soil or water.
As I learned firsthand over recent years, a critical component of this support must be sober living homes. These are the facilities that are meant to provide people with an opportunity to recover in a safe environment.
Against a backdrop of rising seas rising and receding shorelines, it feels as though the Vineyard gets a little smaller every year. But one town is actually a bit bigger than it once was.
A poem for winter.
The night my mother had died I slept on the lawn in a sleeping bag under the stars. I woke the next day and felt the same emptiness.
How wonderful to see Shirley Mayhew’s monarch butterfly movie and to think that not so long ago the Vineyard sheltered so many monarchs on their migrations.