By Tracy Matfin (excerpted from Communities #203, Summer 2024) Last week I was having garden fresh mint tea with a visitor to our community. She was talking about her daughter, who was home with her dad, and asked me how my family group dealt with conflict with our...
By Chris Roth (excerpted from Communities #203, Summer 2024) Readers who were with us in the last millennium, or who’ve visited their online account to peruse the digital back issue archive, may recognize something that we didn’t until we’d already announced this...
Communities #203 Summer 2024 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. The stories in Communities #203, Summer 2024, “Conflict and Connection,” explore the gifts as well as the challenges of conflict—the opportunities it offers to deepen our connections, to...
By Emily Grubman (excerpted from Communities #202, Spring 2024, pages 16-17; see illustrated layout in pdf format here) The following is adapted from a blog entry titled “Letter *to* Lost Valley” posted September 11, 2023 at...
By Riana Good (excerpted from Communities #202, Spring 2024, pages 10-12; see illustrated layout in pdf format here) It was July of 2016, a damp, cool day in the foothills of the White Mountains. I poured a steaming mug of tea and nestled into a pale, overstuffed...
Communities #201 Winter 2023 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #201, Privacy and Transparency, explores the interplay between guardedness and openness in sharing ourselves and our lives, both within community and in relation to the wider...
