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Sheela Clary

Sheela Clary is a writer and teacher born and raised in South Berkshire county. She's interested in exploring the issues that affect the region, and in building community through place-based storytelling classes and events. She teaches Italian language and cooking, as well. Her writing can also be found at her Substack newsletter, Clarity. (https://sheela.substack.com Clarity | Sheela Clary | Substack a periodic, carefully composed newsletter exploring my obsessions, such as the state of our common life in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the stories of unheard-from people, the beauties of Italian, and the mysteries of good writing. Click to read Clarity, by Sheela Clary, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago: sheela.substack.com

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Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: Let’s dismantle ‘The Cult of Smart’

If we can’t force schools to make every student succeed, what can we do? For one thing, we can lower the stakes for failure.
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

We are living through an age in which white privilege is beginning to get its comeuppance. "The Sum of Us" explains why that’s a good, necessary thing, and not to be feared.
Life In the Berkshires

Can an Instagram initiative ‘Change Berkshire Culture’?

Change Berkshire Culture has joined a nationwide call to bring attention to the issues of nonprofit cultural sector workers. Will it work?
Viewpoints

POEM: I Love New York

Thank God for high jinks in finance! Lady Justice gets one final chance!
Life In the Berkshires

Interview: Great Barrington’s new police chief, Paul Storti

One of the department's aims is to develop programs and initiatives to build trust with the community's more under-recognized groups.
News

Mass. State Senator Adam Hinds lays out his 2021 priorities

Hinds and his staff of five are hard at work on a variety of issues related to the Senator’s priorities of green transportation, income inequality, and racial justice.
Viewpoints

With or without him

Politicians who say the violent insurrection of January 6 “isn’t us” would like us to pretend we hear and see no evil. Well, cat’s out of that bag. We all saw and heard the evil, and it is us.
Learning

Claudia Maurino thinks you should join AmeriCorps

Then, all of a sudden, things got busy, fast. The team was assigned to disaster relief demolition and reconstruction work in Lake Charles, La., a small industrial city that has, Claudia said, “A very different vibe than New Orleans.”
Viewpoints

Typhon’s dreadful offspring

A mob casually breaching and desecrating the Capitol — and thus succeeding where Al Qaeda, on September 11th, failed — seems a fitting and logical nadir to the waste-laying that Trump concerned himself with since the day he was inaugurated.
News

2020 was a very good year — at least for one local couple

Despite her mobility issue, Sarah held off on going to the doctor for years, until the day a good friend looked at her as if to say, “You need to get this checked out,” and she knew he was right.
Viewpoints

The time to think of ‘we’

Since September, CLuB has provided 10 remote learning hubs at Berkshire South and Greenagers for 112 children of working families, and as a result, nurses and teachers and X-ray techs and grocery store clerks and cooks and carpenters and other essential workers have kept their livelihoods.
Viewpoints

Mild: From inconvenienced to pleased in Southern Vermont

You’ve read Cheryl Strayed’s ‘Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.’ But have you read Sheela Clary’s ‘Mild’?
Viewpoints

A time to listen

It’s plain the articulate, confident and totally wrong 24-hours-per-day dissection of the American populace by the TV pundit and polling class is not a useful contribution to anything.
Viewpoints

October maples

We are greater than the sum of the news. We are greater than the sum of our opinions.
Learning

CLuB is one month in, and grateful for hot water bottles and long johns

Since Sept. 21, 111 (and counting) local students who might otherwise have been left alone at home or fit into piecemeal childcare arrangements have been accessing their remote school lessons with adult assistance through CLuB.
Viewpoints

Some thoughts on Amy Coney Barrett

How sweet and quaint and unrecognizable is the world of Amy Coney Barrett! It’s a green, healthy, functional place, inhabited by happy warriors for justice.
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