June 2026 It’s June! The month of weddings, graduations, Father’s Day, Flower Communion, annual meetings, PRIDE, and (for our monthly theme) peace. If you had told me three years ago that some of those things would become controversial in the not too distant future, I would not have believed you. But here we are. The country feels less peaceful and more contentious than I can ever remember. (I was not old enough in the early 70s to remember the protests surrounding the Vietnam War,...

May 2026 It’s May! The deciduous trees are putting out their tiny leaves! (hooray) The pine trees are coating the world in yellow pollen! (NOT hooray) And it is time to clean out the planting beds ready to start putting in the vegetables and herbs. If you’d like to support our local farm-to-table donation effort, Community Harvest Project’s Plantapalooza is taking orders until Monday, May 4th for pick-up of plants on May 8th. The plant sale helps fund CHP’s donations of fresh, seasonal...

April 2026 April--my favorite month. And only partly because my birthday is in April. April is also (often) the month that contains Easter and always the month that contains Earth Day, which are two of my most loved holidays. Both where I grew up (in the lower peninsula of Michigan) and here in New England, April is a month of great transformation ! Although we begin the month in the cold rains (and occasional snow) that marks our late winters here, by the end of the month the weather is...