Things to do, people to meet, places to be in June.

 

Indivisible, St Johnsbury

Meets Wednesday’s 11-12pm Location: The UU Church on Cherry Street, St J

Indivisible, E. Burke

Meets Sat at 3 at Café Lotti, East Burke

NEK Indivisible 

To be added to the NEK Indivisible emergency PHONE TREE, please send to peacekingdom@vtlink.net: first & last name, if ok with that, town, and cell phone & landline, if you have both.

 

Bread and Puppet Museum Opens

Sunday June 1 at 2pm

Join us Sunday, June 1 at 2pm for a celebratory afternoon of performances, bread, and museum appreciation to mark the beginning of the summer season at the Bread & Puppet farm. Guest performances will feature throughout the afternoon, concluding with a performance of Oh You Beast Descendants.

 

 

 

Breakfast Club 

TBD

 

 

VOTE FORWARD – Help get out the votes! Nationwide action center.

 

“To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.”

― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

 

Waterford’s Banned Book Book Club

Meeting at the Davies Memorial Library Meets every two months

Do you have any idea how many books have been banned or challenged in the United States of America? The answer: Countless. A quick Google search will enlighten and disappoint you; give it a try. All are invited to participate in Waterford’s Banned Book Book Club (you don’t have to live in Waterford). We will meet once, every 2 months, to discuss our past read and to pick our next book. Most books will be available at your public library-YAY for public libraries! Our first book is The Handmaid’s Tale. I read this when it was first released and look forward to revisiting it. Context and timing will certainly play into my 2025 perception. I ​a​m curious to hear how ​others feel about it. Hope to hear back from you. – Robin Migdelany  

Upcoming events with Rights & Democracy

https://www.mobilize.us/rightsdemocracy/event/755065/ Hope to see you at one of these upcoming meetings!

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Visit https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ to find out more

 

 

Climate Café Monthly Gathering:

Monday, July 28, 2025

7 pm for 90 minutes

A place to connect with others and share feelings about our changing climate and associated impacts. This is not a therapy group, but is focused on deep listening and our shared humanity. Facilitated by Sara Demetry and Judith Springer To get the zoom link or with questions, contact Judith, see poster for contact information. No charge! This will be a monthly offering. -Jen Here is the flyer:

A song 

 

A song by Sarina Partridge: https://sarinapartridge.com/

The red sun rises on a world on fire,
but it also rises on a holy choir.
Singing through the dark times, through the ash and smoke,
weave the grief into the song and sing our way back to home.

 

A Poem by Matthew Olzmann a VT poet

Interview at https://www.interlochenreview.org/matthew-olzmann

https://poets.org/poem/letter-someone-living-fifty-years-now

Matthew Olzmann

Most likely, you think we hated the elephant,
the golden toad, the thylacine and all variations
of whale harpooned or hacked into extinction.

It must seem like we sought to leave you nothing
but benzene, mercury, the stomachs
of seagulls rippled with jet fuel and plastic.

You probably doubt that we were capable of joy,
but I assure you we were.

We still had the night sky back then,
and like our ancestors, we admired
its illuminated doodles
of scorpion outlines and upside-down ladles.

Absolutely, there were some forests left!
Absolutely, we still had some lakes!

I’m saying, it wasn’t all lead paint and sulfur dioxide.
There were bees back then, and they pollinated
a euphoria of flowers so we might
contemplate the great mysteries and finally ask,
“Hey guys, what’s transcendence?”

And then all the bees were dead.

Copyright © 2017 by Matthew Olzmann. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on April 14, 2017, by the Academy of American Poets.