As the storm approached, fish were biting. Last week was beautiful, and the water was still warm enough to enjoy swimming and boogie-boarding in little waves that broke at low tide on the sandbar off Lucy.
Leaves are starting to turn, and the wind is going to blow, but maybe there will be enough left to enjoy fall color. We wonder if the large paper wasp nest hanging from a branch across from MVY Radio will fall.
North Tabor Farm is offering preorders of its Chilmark pasture-raised turkeys, whole, half, or parted for Thanksgiving. You can order via a link on Instagram.
It is a delight to see such a fine portrait of Anh Ho, taken by Jeanna Sheppard, on the front cover of the fall issue of the Vine. We will never forget the cooking of his grandmother, Khen. I loved the thin noodles tossed in a light, flavorful sauce topped with sesame seeds and whole red hot peppers.
And I am so grateful he has carried on, made it his own, and expanded the business. He is a great example of perseverance, trying, and discovering life work that fits best. His dahlias are spectacular.
Saturday, Oct. 18, will be the last market this year for Khen’s Little Kitchen at the Farmers Market. Our family loves the hot egg rolls, and we will stock up on Anh’s chili crisp. It makes a great addition to just about everything, including hummus.
It is striking how often we discover the many ways lives cross in surprising ways. When Anh was learning to bake bread, he spent time in Iggy’s in Australia. I wonder if he was there when they were a young family, and the children played their violins while the bread rose?
On an Island we are all neighbors. How can we respond, when a conversation on the bus between strangers where one is gentle and peace-loving, and the other a hard charger happy about the direction the country is going, turns to the one proudly proclaiming they have an arsenal of guns, and when they see the protestors at Five Corners. it makes them wish they had their gun and could mow them all down. The gentle soul departed shaken. I wish I’d been there.
Thank you, Jessica Roddy, for speaking, and it is horrific that your cancer was likely caused by PFAS in your well water. If you haven’t, please read the article in The Times – bit.ly/MVT_PFAS_well.
Camille Beauzile will lead yoga practice and Seán McMahon will play music during an offering of Sacred Sound and Movement: An Embodied Healing Journey at Stillpoint, Sunday, Oct. 19, at 3 pm. In this slow-flow, two-hour yoga practice led by Beauzile, you will enter a moving meditation where breath and body align in a graceful rhythm of ease, accompanied by music performed by McMahon.
On we go.