What a lovely piece! It's so hard to make such a huge sacrifice, even when we know it's the best and right thing to do.
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It was 91 years ago this week, on April 5, 1933, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as part of his New Deal, a program intended to get people back to work during the Great Depression. Anyone visiting state or national parks in the U.S. today still benefits from the work of the CCC. The program virtually created more than 700 state parks, and National Parks across the country benefited from CCC workers. When Roosevelt...
There should be a 12-step program for oil addiction. One in which our nation could humbly admit our powerlessness in dealing with our addiction to this substance and turn our country over to god. There isn't, and we didn't. We gave it to Trump. It often seems to take a sobering event to create change. What's it going to take to get us sober? In our case, the sobering event is ubiquitous, but the greatest of human flaws - trying...
For Sharon Myers, food, fabric and flowers flow in artistic confluence. Myers, 77, who lives in West Brattleboro, recently retired as a professional chef after 43 successful years in the field; she plans to spend more time in her art studio and her garden. “For me, cooking, the garden, time in the studio - they are all art forms,” Myers said. “Making art. Making something beautiful and delicious. Making people happy. What could be better?” When you first meet her,
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