Franklin County is a rural area on the U.S./Canadian border in northwest Vermont. Some 49,000 people populate the 14 towns and one city across 692 square miles. This county is one of the few in Vermont that can still pass the sniff test (quite literally when it’s time to spread cow manure on the fields) …
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Care Package for Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021
The past couple of days, I’ve spent my time at work in the kitchen instead of the office, making lunch for our residents. I’ll be doing the same next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday (my last day at the affordable elderly housing facility I’ve been with for the past year). It’s vacation time for one of …
Care Package for Friday, July 2, 2021
A Week In Vermont (Day 6) Poetry: Pledge by Elizabeth PowellRepublic, your cool handsOn my schoolgirl shoulders.Not sure what allegiances meantUntil the vows were held by heart,By memory, by rote, by benign betrothal.Read More Lyrical: Lines and Circles by StrangefolkTime and time and time again/Circles break and lines they bend/And you, got to let it …
Care Package for Wednesday, June 30, 2021
A Week In Vermont (Day 4) Poetry: Goddess of Maple at Evening by Chard deNiordShe breathed a chill that slowed the sapinside the phloem, stood perfectly stillinside the dark, then walked to a fieldRead More Lyrical: All About You by Kat WrightI’ll be there if times get tough/I know you love me baby/And that is …
Care Package for Tuesday, June 29, 2021
A Week In Vermont (Day 3) Poetry: Beam by Jody GladdingHow is it I’m becoming particlesolid tool with a few odd useseven as I’m honed to nothingRead More Lyrical: Brothers by Troy MilletteWe are brothers/We are not the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05V9-cdG5-0 Art: Richard Long’s Red Slate Circle Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “A year in Vermont, according …
