Tales From the Counter #4: Peace, Love, Neighbors, Strangers, and Dinosaurs

In High Falls and other small towns of America, unlike the villages and cities of Europe, Latin America and elsewhere whose thoughtful and visionary urban planners integrated the town square or piazza as an essential priority for the health of a community and individuals, most Americans must make due with stores and restaurants, the workplace and places of activities like gyms and studios to gather, exchange wares and stories, validate one another, see and be seen.

Nectar Days, essayJenny WonderlingDecember 15, 2017local business, woman owned business, Hudson Valley, peace, neighbors, shop small, HolidaysComment

Water Song

“When I grew up, we were taught to ask permission of the water, just to begin a relationship with it. We were not to run up to a river, a lake, or a stream, but were told to always approach water in a quiet way, to be respectful, and honor it.”

essay, memoir, EarthJenny WonderlingJanuary 28, 201613 indigenous grandmothers, water song, Indigenous Wisdom, earth, peace, wisdom, elders, International councilComment