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.



https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/11/impossible-dawn/

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.

https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/04/janet-elderkin-azzoni-on-home/

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.



https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/11/brendon-on-freedom/

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.

https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/10/winter-is-coming/

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.



https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/10/winter-is-coming/

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.




https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/10/gods-chorus-of-crickets/

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

11/10/2020

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




https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/10/kerry-jackson-on-music/

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.

04/09/2020

Did you like the most recent issue of Yarrow & Cleat?

If so, consider thanking us with a cup of coffee...

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/yarrowandcleat

A project of artist and writer Peter Bruun, Yarrow & Cleat was created in Spring 2020 to help him make sense of a COVID-19 world. In sharing authentic messages...

03/09/2020

Ed Nadeau's painting has more to it than meets the eye.



https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/08/the-recumbent-birch/

Ed Nadeau's painting has more to it than meets the eye.

02/09/2020

With school starting and so many uncertainties ahead, Fox is ready to take things as they come.



https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/08/fox-elder-on-reopening-school/

With school starting and so many uncertainties ahead, Fox is ready to take things as they come.

01/09/2020

Cara McDonough has a knack for observing the meaningful in the everyday.



https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/08/dear-pandemic-diary/

Cara McDonough has a knack for observing the meaningful in the everyday.

31/08/2020

August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day, a day we recognize by sharing this article from our most recent issue of "Yarrow & Cleat."

“'...We started grieving the loss of my son even before he was gone,' says Jenny Jordan, whose 19-year-old son Steven Anthony Roderick died of an overdose on November 4, 2019..."




https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/08/jenny-jordan-on-stevie/

The death of Jenny's son from an overdose fuels her passion to end stigma.

30/08/2020

International Overdose Awareness Day is a global event held on 31 August each year that aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of drug-related death.

The essay "Each Breath" by Peter Bruun in the most recent issue of Yarrow & Cleat marks the occasion.

An excerpt:

"In 2014, the year my daughter died of an overdose, 47,054 others lost their lives in this country the same way she did.

"47,054.

"It gets worse. In 2018, 67,367 people in the United States died of an overdose—345 of those in Maine. The following year, Maine saw 380 such deaths, a nearly 10% increase. And thus far, for 2020, with COVID creating more isolation and less easy access to help, the state is on track for worse: 127 people are reported to have died of an overdose in the first quarter of 2020 in Maine, and second quarter numbers are projected to be 132.

"132.

"In three months, just about as many deaths as Maine has experienced from the coronavirus pandemic in total."



https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/08/each-breath/

Each issue of Yarrow & Cleat includes a word from its creator, Peter Bruun, embracing both the joy and grief of these challenging days.

29/08/2020

After a break of nearly five weeks, we are pleased to announce the release of our 11th issue.

From here on out, expect new issues of "Yarrow & Cleat" on the last Saturday of each month.

https://yarrowandcleat.org/

Yarrow & Cleat is an online magazine from the Boothbay region of Maine offering authentic messages of courage, inspiration, and beauty during the days of COVID-19. Our goal is to illuminate and celebrate the resilience, hope, and fellowship that defines who we are as a community.

22/08/2020

Next issue comes out August 29.

22/08/2020

Click this link for a message from Peter Bruun, founder of Yarrow & Cleat, on why the publication is going monthly:

https://mailchi.mp/yarrowandcleat/august22_2020-announcement

31/07/2020

Amanda Cotier's long-time dream of owning a food truck (Coastal Crave) comes true during COVID-19.



https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/07/amanda-on-silver-linings-and-service/

Amanda Cotier's long-time dream of owning a food truck comes true during COVID-19.

29/07/2020

A lesson from this toxic mushroom on respecting the boundaries of others.



https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/07/destroying-angels/

A lesson from this toxic mushroom on respecting the boundaries of others.

28/07/2020

Jaap Eduard Helder’s art has an urgency well-suited to the times.



https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/07/limit/

Jaap Eduard Helder's art has an urgency well-suited to the times.

27/07/2020

Stephanie Noyes Mcsherry has a vision for building community that even a pandemic cannot upend.



https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/07/stephanie-on-merry-barn-done-right-in-covid-days/

Stephanie Noyes McSherry has a vision for building community that even a pandemic cannot upend.

26/07/2020

"Naked Athena appeared and the little boys didn’t know what to do.”

So writes journalist Donovan Farley, recording in all her strut and defiance the n**e chimera before the phalanx of gas-masked men—a 2 a.m. mirage. Pepper pellets shot, her calves bleed on a dangerous night in Portland, Oregon, summer 2020. By her side, shield in hand, a friend offers what little protection he can.

She is fearless: “Here is my body—take it if you dare.”

We lay our bodies down.




https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/07/we-lay-our-bodies-down/

Each issue of Yarrow & Cleat includes a word from its creator, Peter Bruun, embracing both the joy and grief of these challenging days.

25/07/2020

Issue number 10 of "Yarrow & Cleat" is now LIVE!

We are so proud of having produced 60 articles and having received over 15,000 page views since launching April 18 of this year.

Thank you for being a part of our community!



https://yarrowandcleat.org/

Yarrow & Cleat is an online magazine from the Boothbay region of Maine offering authentic messages of courage, inspiration, and beauty during the days of COVID-19. Our goal is to illuminate and celebrate the resilience, hope, and fellowship that defines who we are as a community.

24/07/2020

Back when the pandemic first began having an impact, Bar Clarke saw both challenge and opportunity in a world transformed.




https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/05/bar-clarke-on-adolescent-mental-health/

Bar sees both challenge and opportunity in a world transformed.

23/07/2020

A look back at last school year as we anticipate an uncertain next one.




https://yarrowandcleat.org/2020/05/madison-faulkingham-on-senior-year/

Hardship and growth go hand-in-hand for Maddy this graduation year.