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A queer and BIPOC spin on Bible stories: ‘A Book By Their Cover’ filmmaker starts crowdfunding campaign for new movie

“I’m retelling a lot of stories in the Bible from more of a queer and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) perspective,” Tedeschi told The Berkshire Edge. “What I’m saying is, why do we accept some of the things that we accept? Why is there racism? Why is there sexism?"

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 48: Wildflowers

During this terrible time of police violence, protest, burning cities and pandemic, these woodland flowers call me to them like shelter in a storm.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Love and loss in the garden

Fred took me from my buttoned-down days in my Connecticut garden to my life as a single man in the Berkshires and gave me a new way of thinking about gardening.

LAURA DIDYK: It Takes All Kinds

This week we meet Georgette.

BOB GRAY: Look again

In that quiet, contemplative juncture of the year, when the gaudy foliage is past and the snow waits just around the bend, the minimalist remnant of my flower garden will suit me just fine. 

BOB GRAY: Ghosts

Shades of past lives, slim in the shadows, they sway slightly in the hot summer breeze.

CONNECTIONS: Coded messages

In the 19th century, the rules and rituals of courtship were prescribed by the church and then by society. However quaint they may seem to us today, we can identify with the underlying humanity and human yearning.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Slow Flowers

Of late, a new movement, Slow Flowers, has been giving local a new dimension. Local flowers have become just as popular as their vegetable counterparts.

NATURE”S TURN: Winter’s waffle, rustic tasks and pastimes

I’ve awoken to the realization that this is a different kind of December. What are the consequences of the abnormally warm temperatures?
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