Saturday Indoor yard sale, 8 a.m. to noon, North Parish Church vestry, 895 Main St., Sanford. “A Day of Meditation for Veterans and Others Living with Post-Traumatic Stress,” 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with Zen Buddhist monk, Vietnam veteran and author Claude Anshin Thomas. Held at Point Lookout, 67 Atlantic Highway, Route 1, Northport. The […]

“But I tried really hard …” I heard my grandson Jack say as crocodile tears streamed down his face. He had just finished his last ice skating lesson and he was leaving the arena without the cherished badge. While we shared how proud we were of his newly acquired ability to skate, there was no […]

The poet Denise Levertov wrote, “The mind’s far edges twitch, sensing kinships beyond reach.” Her words suggest that something about living seems incomplete. We have soul-appetites fashioned for other places; the mind’s eye seems equipped for landscapes other than those we now see. There are whisperings within of Shangri-La, associated with a dim memory, or […]