One year in a state of emergency: Worcester officials, clergy reflect on pandemic s toll
WORCESTER There was a time when it was possible for the average resident to not know anyone who died from, or even came down with, the COVID-19 virus.
Not anymore. Few of us remain who don t know someone who simply had to isolate for a few weeks with mild symptoms, or someone who spent time in the hospital, or someone who had it with no symptoms at all. Or someone who died. A grandparent. A cousin. An in-law.
As the enormity of the situation started to crystalize in March 2020 and more and more cases starting popping up in Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency effective Wednesday, March 11.
Ordinary Elephant at Marblehead s Me&Thee, virtually
The acclaimed duo is folk music at its best
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The acclaimed musical duo, Ordinary Elephant, will play a virtual concert at the me&thee on Friday, March 12. Currently residing in southern Louisiana, Crystal and Pete Damore, have made a significant imprint on the folk music landscape in the last several years. Their debut album from 2017, “Before I Go,” shot to the top of the folk-DJ list as soon as it was released, and they became a fan favorite because of their pure sound and charming performances. The me&thee show will take place on YouTube and Facebook as well as on the me&thee website and it begins at 8 p.m.
Sarah Bender - Buddhist
Sarah Bender is a Roshi (senior teacher) in the Koan Zen Buddhist tradition. She is a resident teacher for Springs Mountain Sangha, a Zen community in Colorado Springs (smszen.org).
If a soul is a shard of the great light that animates the body it inhabits during a lifetime, clearly it shines through animals as through humans. What happens after death? I donât know. Time and physical space donât seem to be obstacles to this light. It seems to live on in everyone and everything a being has touched, spreading like ripples, wider and wider. At someoneâs death, I am always struck by the dual nature of it. It seems ordinary. Hereâs a live person (or animal), hereâs a person in transition, beyond life. Not breathing. And yet. an impenetrable mystery. Where is she? Where did he go? How is it that I can, almost physically, feel that I am now carrying some of him/her?