I just got back from a long weekend road-trip to the Common Ground Fair in Maine. I was thrilled by how many people I ran into – a former teacher from Mountain School, a couple of friends I worked with at Garden of Eve Farm, a girl I went to Wesleyan with. It’s pretty rare to feel like progressive environmental values have critical mass, but MOFGA set an attendance record on Saturday and the energy was great, a vast display of craft and optimism.

It was a fitting send-off for what’s to come, a whirlwind of traveling and transitions. We’ll see, she said, hoping. We’ll see.