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CONNECTIONS: In this fraught time, focus locally

It is important for us to feel relevant at a time when it is easy to feel small and impotent.

BOB GRAY: Dirges

When we awake, lights won’t explode with color but will flicker and dim.

Affordable Housing Trust apologizes for lack of communication about development plan

If approved, the town wouldn't close on the property until July. If taxpayers rejected the funding, then there would be no project at all, or the trust would have to identify another site.

BOB GRAY: March’s face

For me this unwonted warmth is discouraging, even disconcerting. My mind’s not right.

Angry Housatonic residents assail CPC for funding of affordable housing property

It was standing-room only as dozens of angry residents of the Housatonic section of Great Barrington, including a former selectman, vented their feelings about the committee's consideration of funding a proposal from the town affordable housing trust to acquire land for housing.

BOB GRAY: Outta this place

The war was just cranking up, but we were still three deferments from reality.

BOB GRAY: Garden thoughts

A garden, large or small, invites a man to know the earth, the wind, the rain, and himself.

BOB GRAY: Contender

I told my fiancé my plans. She gave me an ultimatum: rope ring or gold ring.

BOB GRAY: Volunteers

The squash had “volunteered,” and in their term of enlistment had evaded the damned, destructive woodchucks.

SOUL SUPPORT: Resisting. Acceptance. Starring Bob Gray

When I resist my feelings and think they should be other than they are, I stifle my creativity.

BOB GRAY: Spot in the sun

At other camps where I'd worked decades ago, the summer's endings were crowded with good-byes and tearful promises to keep summer loves alive.

BOB GRAY: A pile of bricks, a stack of wood

It's time to sit in the arbor and listen to the grapes grow.

BOB GRAY: Kindred Spirits

He seemed about my age, and I appreciated, as he read, what I understood as resonances of both vigor and mortality.

BOB GRAY: Blowing in the wind

How similar this day was to the day I buried my father, the remembrance, not only of the simple, grave-side service, but also of this same wind seeping through my coat.

BOB GRAY: Signs of spring

Spring geese suffer from a touch of spring fever and have trouble sticking to the serious business of migration.

BOB GRAY: A plea for sanity — ban assault weapons

Only a titanic shift in our national character might make stricter gun laws an effective reality.

BOB GRAY: Path less traveled

I walk in part to stop time, since I’ve read somewhere that movement freezes time, forestalls aging.
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