“Trauma is not the bad things that happened to you, but what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you.” Dr. Gabor Maté When you look up the documentary “The Wisdom of Trauma,” the first thing you should be gladly taken aback by is the subtitle: “Can our deepest pain be a […]
The one thing you are guaranteed with anything that Built on Stilts director Abby Bender cooks up is the unexpected. This year’s fall offering is “Granger Things,” an immersive theater and dance experience where, as the promotional material says, “Worlds collide, and legends remain uncertain.” The undertaking is an intricate collaboration with Circuit Arts’ theater […]
At noon Tuesday outside Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, members of the 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East held a rally advocating for investments and reforms against worker shortages, and for a caregiver wage higher than the state minimum wage. A particular focus of the approximately 20 ralliers was to also call for the passage of bill […]
Charley and I have grandchildren scattered across the globe (two who move back and forth from Portugal to Switzerland, two in San Francisco, and the two here on-Island). It’s hard to not have them all within hugging distance, so last week I flew west to see the West Coast family. The travel day was long, […]
Founded in 1961, Martha’s Vineyard Community Services (MVCS) was one of America’s first rural Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC). The community mental health movement of the 1950s and 1960s had the dream that communities could come together to support mental health needs regardless of ability to pay. The CMHC model is based on the notion […]