Carolyn North

Maybe it’s not a disaster?

‘Everything falls apart until it finds its way into the faster vibration and stabilizes at the higher frequency. Which is to say that it’s an unholy mess for a while.’


Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and spirit."


PUTNEY-Recently, I went to a high school production of Cabaret to see the daughter of a good friend performing in it. Assuming I was going to a kind of variety show, I expected a sweet teenage-y thing - but it wasn't.

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A huge pig in Putney creates community

'We all got mud-splattered and we all got to meet one another, some for the first time. Johnny accepted everyone's gifts of food and occasionally swished his piggy tail, splattering mud onto all his helpers.'

Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and spirit." PUTNEY-I am a relative newcomer to the tiny village of Putney, living on a narrow dead-end lane bordered by deep woods on one side and, on the other, Main Street, with the village...

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Root cellars, sacred stones, and timeless connection

‘Edges, bits of walls — all were piled helter-skelter on the ground, and there in the center was something reminiscent of a capstone, and above it a rock lintel. Where had I seen this before? Felt this before?’

Carolyn North is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and spirit." She submits this piece in memory of Pamela Mayer, the founder of the Manitou Project in Williamsville. North's book Voices Out of Stone covers her experience with the stones in Kercado in more detail...

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Nourishing the soul

Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and spirit." PUTNEY-Growing up in New York in the 1940s, going to Radio City Music Hall was the most special treat a kid could imagine, so for my fifth birthday my parents took me there to see Walt Disney's new movie Bambi. The theater was huge and dark, the screen full of moving color, and the story so devastating to me that when the Hunter took...

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Finding home

Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and spirit." Yesterday, I forgot - and not for the first time - that I had a soup boiling on the stove, and then I forgot that it was my turn to take out the trash. I also almost forgot that the Yellow Barn Music Festival, right across the road from where I live, was having a concert of chamber music that evening, showcasing advanced students...

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Changing seasons, changing lives

Autumn has come and gone here in Vermont, red and yellow leaves raining into the air, covering the brown ground with a carpet of color. Oh, it was gorgeous! I was sorry to see the green of summer go, but the process of change is its own magical performance. For me, after so many years in California with its subtle shifting of seasons, I love the Northeast's slam-bang seasonal dramas that change colors and vistas almost overnight, opening long views...

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Changing seasons, changing lives

Carolyn North, a Putney resident for a little over a year, regularly writes on her website a brief piece, "like a prose poem, about the state of the world through the lens of her daily life," she says. "My purpose has been to help reassure folks that we can get through these hard times if we remember to do it together." Autumn has come and gone here in Vermont, red and yellow leaves raining into the air, covering the brown...

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