This Month’s Featured Articles…
The magic of Camphill Village: Getting to know the vibrant, dynamic community in Copake, NY, and all that it has to offer
Photo above: David Wallace harvests herbs in Camphill’s healing plant garden, where the garden crew tends to biodynamic flowers and herbs during growing season, and transforms them into teas and culinary herb mixes, as well as natural remedies. All photos courtesy of Camphill Village. As the oldest and largest Camphill community in the United States, Camphill Village Copake has a rich and extensive history that spans over six decades in the region. However, long-time member of the Camphill community Richard Neal explains that as a [...]
Life Lessons
An’ here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice – Bob Dylan One might suspect that after decade upon decade spent meandering this fair Earth of ours, even a besotted toadstool might’ve acquired a nugget or two of what passes as wisdom, but then, that’s a hard thing to verify, at least for yours truly, who has never once encountered a tipsy ‘shroom. Some of these I’ve come [...]
Protecting our nights: Envoys of beauty
It’s eighteen degrees out at 9:12pm on December 23, and I’m at a trailhead, fumbling with the buttons of my headlamp. Ten minutes ago, I was in Falls Village, watching the Housatonic boy’s basketball home opener against Thomaston. We lost by fifteen. We had a respectable first half, though, much like the Steelers did two nights ago, when I opted to stay indoors and watch football instead of heading out into the longest of nights – the winter solstice – when the sky was a [...]
A hopeful romantic’s guide: Confronting tricky Valentine’s Day feelings & navigating a holiday dedicated to love
When the month of February rolls around, the focus on romantic love can become overwhelming. I have spent all but one Valentine’s Day single, and whether I was surrounded by friends for a Galentine’s movie night, sick in bed while my flatmates made their way out to a London club, or spending an ordinary evening at home with family, I always felt a sense of yearning, as if something was missing. Of course, it’s a no-brainer why that was. Rom-coms flooding television stations, pink and [...]
Animals in Love
For those attracted here by the prurient possibilities suggested by this headline, settle down. Unless something goes completely off the rails, we will not be discussing, reviewing, or analyzing some raucous Thursday night orgy organized and participated in by the neighborhood cauldron of bats, romp of otters, or prickle of porcupines, although I suppose if it’s an orgy you have in mind, you could do worse than to populate it with that trio. Recently, when the little doggy of the house appeared for all the [...]
