Tag: Rosslyn
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Home Inspection, May 22, 2006
Remembering that fortuitous day almost two decades ago when home inspector James Gibb helped demystify our future home.
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Kevin Raines: Painting Home
Birthday best to Kevin Raines (and lots of gratitude for bringing the wilderness inside our home while expanding our notion of homeness!)
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Earth Day
Without being cute or hyperbolic, *every* day at Rosslyn is Earth Day. Healthy, sustainable, holistic practice — from construction and gardening to eating and personal wellness, responsible land stewardship to ecological wildlife guardianship — was fundamental to the lifestyle changes we made two decades ago when we exited life in Manhattan and started fresh on…
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Rosslyn Came to Me
Last night Susan recommended that we watch “She Came to Me,” an indie film with an all star cast including Marisa Tomei, Peter Dinklage, and Anne Hathaway. With no familiarity or expectations, we were pleasantly surprised by the quirky film, a sort of movified comic opera. Despite abundant critical piling on, I found much to…
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Sacred Exchanges
I awoke this morning thinking about Danusha Laméris’s poem, “Small Kindnesses”, and Rosslyn. Two discrete points of reference mingling, as if in conversation. Two planets passing, briefly eclipsing, a gravitational closeness, a tender but fleeting affinity, an ephemeral communion. The echo of a question in Laméris’s lines lingers. Like a hint, a glimmer of affirmation.…
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What’s In A Name?
Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc. Rosslyn’s *possibly* Scottish Gaelic etymology *possibly* refers to being located on a waterway and/or *possibly* refers to being located on a promontory. There are other possibilities as well. Old German. Latin. A rose by any other name… Word-wonder wandering is seductive but in the case…
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Great, Greater, Greatest Gifts
Plunging into another Bloganuary prompt and once again obliged to qualify my response. This time the question is sufficiently open ended to invoke a great variety of answers. Hurrah! But I’m going to bend the inquiry toward Rosslyn for better relevance. With that prologue, on to great, greater, and greatest gifts. Here’s the Bloganuary prompt.…
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New Year Challenges
As I dip the tip of my toe into 2024 — chilly but refreshing so far — I receive an enticing invitation to join the WordPress Bloganuary challenge. Daily prompts conjoining, possibly rhyming the thematic current of multiple bloggers around the globe. And so it is that the first of my new year challenges (though…
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Kestrel at Rosslyn Boathouse
This evening I return to a nostalgic snapshot steeped in the sepia tones of yesteryear. An artifact from our Rosslyn collection, this old photo was featured on February 24, 2014 in the Essex Community blog by Katie Shepard. As often, the discourse generated by this visual time, capsule provided valuable insight to the Kestrel, a…
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Thank You, Steve!
This evening I return to thanks giving with a tribute to Steve Cooley. Over the last few years Steve has undertaken winter snowplowing, spring-summer-autumn lawn care, and landscaping maintenance (from hedge pruning to leaf collection and composting) at Rosslyn, ADK Oasis Highlawn, ADK Oasis Lakeside, and the Westport Yacht Club. And last winter he helped…
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Thank You, Pam!
As we approach the fourth Thursday of November we’re provisioning for an indulgent holiday banquet with family. Thanksgiving is all about family and feasting, for sure. But it’s first and foremost a ritualized reminder to pause and reflect on everyone for whom we’re grateful and everything for which we’re grateful. In both cases, Pam Murphy…
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Willsboro Paper Mill, circa 1900 and 1920
We return today to Willsboro’s industrial Boquet River shoreline a century and more ago. This follow-up to “Willsboro Mills Circa 1912: Grist Mill, Saw Mill, and Paper Mill” includes three intriguing glimpses of this once thriving site of which only a hint remains today. The aerial photograph on this vintage postcard above offers a birds-eye…