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Columns

A garden grows resilient

One day last week, I spent digging a deeper runoff canal alongside one of the walkways at Rose Haven gardens. The ground was hard after ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, June 14, 2019 5:03 pm

Community Columns

The definition of at-risk

At-risk. I use that phrase a lot, and it is used just as much by my colleagues who work in the nonprofit space of service ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Tuesday, February 12, 2019 6:47 pm

Community Columns

Tree of Life

“It’s a huge pecan tree, felled in a hurricane a few years ago. It just keeled over, this honking big root ball almost ripped from ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, January 11, 2019 6:57 pm

Community Columns

We are all “other”

My other half, my wife, said after reading my last column on “other” that I forgot the “other” …. half. My last column was on ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, November 30, 2018 6:13 pm

Community Columns

Working to heal the rupture that divides

Other. How scary can that label be? By itself, the use or even thought of the other can define, delineate and often set apart those ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, November 16, 2018 6:47 pm

Community Columns

Bridge over troubled waters

I grew up in family of six kids and, I confess, without any pressure whatsoever, all of us were huge Simon and Garfunkel fans, including ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, October 19, 2018 10:16 pm

Columns

The day the music died

Don McClean’s 1970s ode, “American Pie,” offered a social hymn to the music and cultural revolution that took place in the 1960s. Of all the ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, September 7, 2018 8:00 pm

Community Columns

The first steps to whole health

Recently, a Vietnam veteran named Wayne motored his wheelchair up to a table where he joined three other veterans on a panel at the Durham ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, August 3, 2018 7:11 pm

Community Columns

On community: weathering trauma

The city of Houston is recovering from catastrophic flooding for the third year in a row. Late this spring, Ellicott, Maryland, encountered devastating flooding that ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, July 6, 2018 8:23 pm

Columns

Moments of meaning

Over three days and seven events of the Healing Vets Weekend, sponsored by the Pamlico Rose Institute for Sustainable Communities and a host other partners, ... Read more