Yarrow & Cleat

12/04/2021

After a hiatus of several months, we are back with a new .

https://yarrowandcleat.org/2021/04/here-we-are/

14/11/2020

Poetry helps, and kindness matters more than ever.

Poetry helps, and kindness matters more than ever.

09/11/2020

In honor of Kip Azzoni’s mother, who as she had wished made it to Southport one last time this past summer, we re-post Janet Elderkin Azzoni’s Neighbor Tale. The lion heart of this long-time Boothbay area mainstay shines through. May she rest in peace.

Janet has been coming to Southport for more than 80 years; she wonders now if this will be the summer she does not make it home.

01/11/2020

With hard work and supportive peers, even a pandemic can't keep Brendon McLellan from succeeding against all odds.

With hard work and supportive peers, even a pandemic can't keep Brendon McLellan from succeeding against all odds.

24/10/2020

On Friday, October 23, 85,085 COVID-19 cases were reported in the United States, a new (and distressing) record.

Winter indeed is coming, and with it, Yarrow & Cleat offers up this article as solace and balm.

Though fear, uncertainty, and isolation rise, so too do love and caring.

17/10/2020

With COVID-19 and coming winter, though fear, uncertainty, and isolation rise, so too do love and caring.

Though fear, uncertainty, and isolation rise, so too do love and caring.

11/10/2020

The crickets' hum on a late summer eve brings joy.

The crickets' hum on a late summer eve brings joy.

11/10/2020

Cellist Kerry Jackson offers music as balm in a pandemic world.

Cellist Kerry Jackson offers music as balm in a pandemic world.

03/10/2020

In his memoir, Peter Ilgenfritz reflects on learning to let go.

https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/10/testing-the-wind/

In his memoir, Peter Ilgenfritz reflects on learning to let go.

29/09/2020

Ed Epping's "The Corrections Project" began in 2015 with "Blanket," a still-in-progress work of art involving 2.3 million hand-sewn stitches representing the number of people incarcerated in the US at any given moment.

Yarrow & Cleat writes about "Isolate," another work of art involving hand-sewing that addresses mass incarceration, in this article:

https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/09/isolate/

28/09/2020

"100,000 stitches sewn in a basic tally-mark pattern suggesting the marking of time."

Learn more: https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/09/isolate/

26/09/2020

Ed Epping's art shines a light on mass incarceration in the United States.

https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/09/isolate/

Ed Epping's art shines a light on mass incarceration in the United States.