Category: Pellere
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After the Storm
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Welp, my plan to start Tai Chi on Saturday mornings got waylaid almost as soon as I came up with it. I woke up this past Saturday to a good bit of storm damage and…you can imagine where the day went. We didn’t do fireworks or hot dogs or s’mores.… Read more
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Finding Family
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation The Open House on June 20th went swimmingly, if I may say so myself! The weather was amazing, and folks from all around the community, from next-door neighbors to neighbors from two towns over, came to see what we’ve been up to. Some came to ask questions. Some came to… Read more
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Footprints on the Ceiling
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation The funny thing about cleaning a house is that the more you clean, the dirtier everything seems. You finally get around to dusting the ceiling fans, and then you notice how grubby the windows look. You clean the windows and suddenly the baseboards seem questionable. That sort of thing. Maybe… Read more
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Nothin’ But Mud
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation There’s nothing like renting a relatively expensive piece of outdoor equipment to have you watching the sky and mumbling to yourself like a soothsayer of old. Or desperately searching your memory for any recollection of a May quite so wet. The weather is always contrary right when we need it… Read more
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The Week Before the Work
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Happy May! I really wish my brain would come up with something other than “Where did the year go??” when I look at the calendar, but…here it is. May. And I do not, in fact, know where the rest of the year has gone. I do know where the last… Read more
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Trying to Decide
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation You know those moments when you’re standing in the middle of your kitchen, staring at nothing, completely forgetting about what you meant to do next… because you have about a hundred things on your to-do list for the day? Now…it might not look like it, but fun fact: that’s actually… Read more
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Sound Familiar?
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Tell me if this sounds familiar. People are talking. It’s going well. The conversation is thoughtful; folks are asking good questions, considering different angles, making sure they understand the full picture. And then it…just sort of…keeps going. One more perspective. One more possibility. One more thing to take into account… Read more
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Says Who??
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Each week, when I sit down to figure out what I’m going to write about, I usually go back and read the last column or two and see where my thoughts want to go next. I got to the last sentence of last week’s article, though, and stopped. “Where a… Read more
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A Little Adjustment
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation A couple weeks ago now, we recorded our first podcast episode, which went…surprisingly smoothly. In hindsight, that probably should have made us suspicious. Everything worked. The conversation flowed. The sound was clean. We wrapped it up, looked at each other, and thought, “Well…that wasn’t so bad!” And then, about a… Read more
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Connection Across Differences: Part 4
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation The question we left off with last week was “How do we create communities where differences don’t immediately divide, and where connection is intentional, not accidental?” I ask myself this question so often. Especially after watching the news, which, frankly, I avoid. I prefer to read my news rather than… Read more
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Connection Across Differences: Part 2
By: Selina Pedi-Smith, Pellere Foundation Last week, we ended with an open question: “Maybe the question isn’t how we resolve every difference, but how we decide which conversations are worth staying in.” That’s an incredibly powerful point. I think a lot about the energy we give to things, to people. The older I get, the… Read more