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Maine Begins The Year

30 Monday Sep 2013

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food-n-cookin, gratitude, maine

For me, a year has a few transition points: the harvest and cold-weather holidays, July 4th (my birthday), and annual Maine Vacation.

Friends swim in Worthley Pond

Going back around eight years, a group of friends, loosely connected via my alma mater, have gathered at a farm house on Worthley Pond. We cook for one another, play games, and challenge each other to accept our quirks and eccentricities for up to ten whole days in a sort of self-imposed group-isolation.

Toasting over an open fire
Playing the uke in Maine
Daddy helps Redd fly
Homemade pizzas
Pellechs quilt in progress

People say it’s good to take a vacation to recharge. Our Maine Vacation is more a reset. A shoring up and storing the clear pond-smell, sunsets, and quiet moments with my partner. I time-release these memories slowly throughout the hectic fall. ‘Till next summer.

Tea on the shore

Looking Back On Fall

08 Thursday Nov 2012

Posted by Phoebe (she / hers) in Green Life, With Friends

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maine, travel, trees, winter

Soup’s on the stove. Cat is in his basket. Sade’s on the player. And outside the window of my home office: snow, snow.

Amazing that, three days ago I was admiring the subtle tones of autumn in the mountains of Maine.

Headed up the trail

The brush

Water was flowing, but I bet now it’s ice.

Fall waterfalls

Reeds wait

A friend said: Is that snow on the mountain over there? And I denied it, claiming sky.

Rock outcropping

But it’s true the plants were packing up, headed towards the season of sleep that drives us wakeful ones indoors.

Caro washes dishes

Tea, no whiskey

Hungry hippos
When the season turns over, it shouldn’t be a surprise, but so it often is.

Librarytour: Zadoc Long Free Library

08 Monday Oct 2012

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Search for one summer pleasure, find another. When excursions down straight, long, Southern Maine roads did not turn up the farm stand we sought, friends stopped for a brief respite at this tiny red gem perched at a crossroads.

The road ahead says rain . . .

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Zadoc Long Free Library, Buckfield

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These shelves are stocked with history.

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Living in the City, Reading about the Country

18 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by Phoebe (she / hers) in Boston Moments, Green Life, Jersey Moments

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arnold-arboretum, jersey, maine

It does not escape me that, living in one of this country’s oldest cities, I spend a lot of time considering the country.

The vine twists

Upon finishing the second issue of Taproot magazine, steeped in the values of living simply, slowly, heart-full, back-to-the-earth, I thought: this is me, this is not me.

I believe in sitting out on the porch, shucking corn. I believe in long walks through green places. In white flashes of deer tails, rabbit tails, and rusty, shaggy foxtail.

Mutant mini corn

I also, believe in escaping the bumper-to-bumper to hit up the ice cream counter. Barely comprehending my luck that this planet holds things cold and milky, vanilla with peanut butter swirls.

I’m a child of the suburbs. Beachtown creaky, my younger years held splinters from Jersey Shore boardwalks, screams from the top of the crickety, wooden ‘coaster. Paper tickets from ski-ball and wack-a-mole games that I traded for spider rings whose cheap plastic pinched my fingers.

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The city has me, the country attracts me.  In between, I both rue and appreciate the Christmas-light palaces of the ‘burbs.

It’s my lot, I think, to refuse claiming -or being claimed- by one, the other, or the third.  I’d rather find value in them all.

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