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RIPENING Nothing but time-when it is time- can make the blueberries ripe, their skins plush as lips, deeply filled with the colors of bruise and breath and bliss: Nothing can rush this, this slow swell  of growth, this lush and lavish splash of fruit, this bloom and blush and burst. You can’t feed it anything […]

DINNER AT SIX, MONHEGAN HOUSE It became a memorable first gathering. Monhegan the meeting place, the group of four, old friends and new, together. A toast to making acquaintances and the good fortune of being on island. The time honored ritual of breaking bread, as conversation and wine flow through the evening. With fond memories, […]

The View from Above:  Monhegan House, 7 A.M. Into the small frame, modest landscape of yellow garden hose, overturned red barrow, the settled gray of shingled houses, early lettuce bedded out, lilacs at crescendo,   here she comes, trotting at a pony’s pace, a young girl in a striped knit cap, pom-pom bobbing on a […]