“It's time to move on to something else.” That's what Walter Slowinski, M.D., said of his Oct. 22 departure from the Putney Medical Office, where he has been practicing for the last 12 years. Slowinski said his decision has nothing to do with finances and everything to do with wanting to focus on his lifelong passion for making clay pots, developing a web presence to market them, finding galleries to carry his ceramics, and “moving [his] work out into the...
The UMass Percussion Ensemble will perform at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 at the door, free for BMAC members and youth 18 and under. The concert includes eight works for various combinations of percussion instruments, including “Music for Pieces of Wood” by Steve Reich; “Angels” for nine triangles, by Vermont-based composer Stuart Saunders Smith; “The Lonelyness of Santa Claus” for two marimbas, by Swedish composer Fredrik Andersson; and compositions...
Ironically, what is potentially most promising about our situation today is that the same circumstances that confront us with social collapse also conspire to present us with an opportunity to finally create and live the values-informed existence we have been searching for all along, and that we now require more than ever, as a condition of our very survival. As the Chinese ideograms for the word suggest, crisis is a time not only of great danger, but of singular opportunity,
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