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Transition
20 December 2025 Koyaanisquatsi, Dear Reader, is a Hopi word that translates to “life out of balance” or “a state of living that calls for another way of living.” Koyaanisquatsi is also the title of 1982’s wordless documentary directed by Godfrey Reggio with music by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. That film made…
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Commonwealth Utopia
22 November 2025 Last night Yo-Yo Ma brought his Bach Project home to Boston for a sold-out Celebrity Series concert in Symphony Hall that was for the first time simulcast to over 20 venues across the Commonwealth. In a 19 November interview on Boston Public Radio, Ma, who has since 2018 toured six continents performing…
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Hilton Head Reunion
2-5 November 2025 Last week I made my first visit to Hilton Head, where my college suitemate Karen, with Pete, my acting teacher and Karen’s late husband of 50+ years, often spent their holidays. My trip began smoothly enough with another first, a chauffeured drive to Logan airport and a non-stop flight to Savannah. There…
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Good / Bad / Good News
26 October 2025 Last night I watched Rachel Maddow’s extended coverage of last weekend’s No Kings rallies, seven million Americans protesting across all 50 states in multiple venues, cities large and small. The Weeks Crossing rally in Dover, New Hampshire (my 6th protest of the Felon-in-Chief) was the largest of the those I’ve attended, coupled…
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Flower Power
13 October 2025 The grey morning of 8 October, my birthday and day 5 of a frustrating case of laryngitis, did not begin auspiciously. I woke from some sad dream morbidly wondering who would, when the time came, take on the task of spreading my ashes around the flower beds of my home, joining those…
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October Accounting
4 October 2025 Here it is, Dear Reader, nearly two months since my last post, well into my birth month, and I’m struggling to account for all that has transpired since last I addressed you.. What’s been happening? My last hummingbird deserted the feeder outside my kitchen window over a week ago, no doubt bound…
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Gundalow
6 August 2025 In this brave new world of OpenAI offering both “companionship” for the lonely and the undoing of education as I once knew it, I’ve been seeking solace from such discombobulating changes in the macrocosm—and in my personal microcosm as well. The latest physical annoyance in the latter: floating bodies—chips of bone in…
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On Wisconsin
29 July – 2 August 2025 The coincidence of birthdays in July—my brother-in-law Reed “Chad” Andrew turned 91 on the 13th and nephew Rob Andrew 58 on the 25th—brought me back to Wisconsin once again this year and a most welcome reunion with family, some very fine brunches, a return to the still astonishing Milwaukee…
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July so far: Good Trouble in the Summertime
22 July 2025 I’m was up this morning far earlier than accustomed for this retiree, as Levi Ellis and his painting crew arrived at 8 am to restore my shower and apse ceilings and our big deck to their original pristine state. And it’s unusually cool for mid-July in New Hampshire, a welcome reprieve from…
Georgeann Murphy 