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Holiday Newsletter 2025
Dear friends, My bees are clustered in the hive – I’m hoping they’e got enough honey stored away and the varroa mites aren’t too bad and my makeshift insulation keeps them warm until March. That might be too much information for non-beekeepers, but you can use it as a metaphor. That is – I hope
Fall 2025
Dear Friends, Hope this finds you well. As time goes on and takes its toll (funky hips, ankle, shoulder, brain, etc.) that greeting takes on more and more meaning. So I do mean it. New Video: The Emperor’s New Clothes Talking Blues What to do about our threatened democracy? Anything we can. This past summer
Spring 2025
Dear Friends, Hope you’re well. Around here, we are constantly reciting Wendell Berry’s line from his Mad Farmer Liberation Manifesto – “Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” We are asking ourselves every day what we should be doing to preserve the democracy (flawed or not) that we have lived in our whole lives.
Winter 2025
Friends, I hope this finds you well. We are hunkered down in Seekonk – it’s below freezing and has been for some time – the local ponds are frozen and I’m wearing long underwear on my daily walks with our border collie Django. Django, happily, in snow In this issue: Greeting An Iliad – What’s
Fall 2024
Dear Friends, I hope the season finds you well. My thoughts are with many of my friends in the southeast coping with the hurricane and its aftermath. I have deep connections with the people and places of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee and my heart breaks for the disaster there. If you’ve been meaning
Winter 2024
Hi friends I hope this finds you well. We’re looking towards spring and just got the second decent dump of snow this year. My bees were out the day before, scrounging among the few snowdrops that have blossomed. They take a “cleansing flight” on days when it gets warm enough to venture out of the