There’s something mysterious and unexpected about walking into a greenhouse in a thunderstorm. … I came through a door in Chatham Berry Farm and felt as though I’d walked into another universe.
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Rachel E. Gross maps the universe of women’s bodies
‘There are parts of your own body less known than the bottom of the ocean or the surface of mars’ — if you’re a woman ...
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Let’s go Maying — it’s blossom time
This is the transforming time, every year. We come to a day or two in May when every bare budding twig seems to open all at once …
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How can women stand together now?
I am watching the rain and trying to understand how to write to you today. How can I talk with you about spring gardens and baby animals when the country is debating whether I and 166 million women should have the right to live full, strong lives — should have the right to live?
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Kids and lambs meet at the Shaker Village
The barn is different on a spring night. Calves lie in the hay like deer in the undergrowth. Lambs sleep on their mother’s backs, and sometimes a chicken will join them for the warmth. …
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Have you ever held a newborn lamb?
It’s 40 degrees and raining, salamander weather, and I’d like to be slopping around in the glorious, raw New England spring.
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Wildflowers and spring bulbs are opening
Do you ever keep a record of things like this — send a photograph of the first winter aconite in bloom, coming in from an afternoon in the back yard muddy and excited because the bloodroot have come back?
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Men on the Amistad speak out in Kevin Young’s ‘Ardency’
Fifty-three people of the Mendi from Sierra Leone captured a slave ship. Each one of them had been kidnapped from a rice field or a house where he slept beside his wife.
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What hatches from an Easter egg?
What hatches from an Easter egg? Looking through some old stories, I found a question I’d asked ten years ago in my Berkshires Week days …
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Izhar Patkin honors poet Agha Shahid Ali in light (throwback)
On a spring night, Izhar Patkin’s ‘Veil Suite’ fills the long gallery with rooms of translucent paintings, illuminating Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry.
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