Here is Providence Point as it looked by the time Rob had grown old enough to begin imagining it might one day be his own. But in fact its surroundings and appearance changed little from the earliest days. “A local couple had first started to build what later became the Point. It would have been..
Month: May 2025
“Granny’s craft was a nimble dingy twelve feet long. Its enamelled canvas skin was permanently watertight. There was no need to moor it at the dock until it “took up” in the spring. In May, Granny could go straight out for a row without waiting. This was her chance to spread her wings after a..
No peaceful activity rivals fishing for twenty minutes on an isolated bay in a boat of one’s own. Unless of course life gets too hectic, in which case wisdom prescribes at least an hour! And so as soon as Robbie took possession of his first rowboat, he would set out to spend … “… most..
It was agreed by all that Granny had weathered some kind of adventure on the boathouse dock one afternoon long before Robbie’s birth. A rattlesnake had reportedly been involved, but the details of the story were hazy: “In my parents’ version, my grandmother had frantically shooed it away with an oar from her rowboat. In..
Margaret Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science) warned us in the 1990s: “Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.” Her view picks up on Adam Smith’s eighteenth-century concept of an “invisible hand” that may bring about results that bear..