Sightings

For a third summer, we're assembling a camp experience for our grandchildren with grandparents as camp counselors. We happened upon these activities, based on architecture, at the Victoria and Albert site. We're adding them to our Camp Gray folder. more »

Q: Did Congress slip a $150 to $250 monthly tax into the new health care law to pay for home care for the elderly? A: No. The new CLASS Act program is voluntary. Premiums are estimated to be $123 per month for workers who choose to participate. It… more »

The present oil leak situation in the US brings to the fore the need to preserve and treasure beaches around the world. The Victoria and Albert Museum is carrying a beach art project on their website that you might want to join in and take pictures of. more »

We are made to see these places that for most of us never existed in our consciousness, and how they connect to ourselves, in concrete terms of war or policy and in abstract terms of fear and empathy. In these moments, the variables of distance, speed, and time that keep us from knowing these places through our own experience collapse. more »