by Linda DeGraf | Apr 1, 2017 | Contemplations
April 2017 In a little corner of my garden, I noticed bright green slender crocus leaves pushing their way up through the crusted brown earth. They steadfastly emerged still capped with dry clods of dirt and endured the unsettling vagaries of freezing nights and late...
by Linda DeGraf | Mar 29, 2017 | Contemplations
Wonder what those three have in common? So did the intrepid group that found its way down the long gravel road past Shannondale to the Rolling Ridge Foundation lands last Sunday afternoon, March 19th. We spent about an hour discussing the Forest Stewardship Plan...
by Linda DeGraf | Mar 29, 2017 | Contemplations
March 2017 In this period of cacophonous town hall meetings and bombardment of the senses with advertising, social media, and rhetoric, we as a society seem to have lost the art and discipline of listening. Even if we hear voices amid the noise, it is difficult to...
by Linda DeGraf | Feb 2, 2017 | Contemplations
February 2017 In this troubled and troubling world we are continually forced to choose sides or else risk indifference or complicity by virtue of inaction. But taking sides also perpetuates a society of winners and losers, of “us vs. them.” How can one seek peace...
by Linda DeGraf | Jan 2, 2017 | Contemplations, Uncategorized
January 2017 As we welcome 2017, saying “Happy New Year” may feel a bit trite and hollow in this troubled world. Yet in a recently published collection of songs, Carrie Newcomer reminds us to hold on to what sustains us: “The shadows of this world will say—There’s no...
