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A mosaic of impressions - Community, communes, communion, commons! All this sharing of life, each another way of saying the same thing: we are together, supporting one another, sharing - but what is it that we share? How far does it go? 
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While Dr. Bonnie Henry tells us how to proceed, we prepare to open the skylight of the bunker and follow the yellow arrows on the ground that lead towa…
Carol Sill
May 18
Today I write the newsletter for this week with even less to say than the week before. A few weeks ago I thought I had a handle on this, and then we tu…
Carol Sill
May 11
I could wait forever for the “right time” to send out this newsletter so I’m doing it today, after all. Before me, this past week’s events and circumst…
Carol Sill
May 4
I’m poetically intrigued by this evocative title: Observations of the Transit of Venus, an account by H.C. Russell of the rare astronomical phenomenon.…
Carol Sill
Apr 27
Here at the corner of Covid and Quarantine, the city is still quiet, but we begin to feel the rumblings and stirrings of possibility - even of hope and…
Carol Sill
Apr 19
How’s it going for you these days? If you’re like me (ie. a human being) you may be running the scales of the emotional instrument, finding tones and s…
Carol Sill
Apr 12
I’m opening this newsletter with Robert Macfarlane’s Word of the Day from a few days ago. It doesn’t look like that island would have a very good wifi …
Carol Sill
Apr 5
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