2025 Life Logs, Day 285: Nor’easter Brings Rain and Wind
Date: Sunday, October 12, 2025
Weather: Rain and NE Wind; High Temp 60 Low 56 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
Northeast winds and rain have arrived and will be with us until Tuesday. It started raining this morning, but at least it didn’t start until after my walk with Shadow. It is Cape Cod Marathon weekend and the streets downtown were filled with cars and people yesterday and today, but that didn’t really affect our walks. We just had lots of people to watch out for.
I went to the UU (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth) at noon today to hear a BORDERx artist give a talk about the exhibit of immigration border art on display there right now. BORDERx is graphic art focused on the border crisis. There are over 70 artists and writers in the nationwide-project, and one of the artists is located in Hyannis. He is C.R. (Craig) Florence, and he gave a fascinating talk today about the work he does. The art is in wall-sized comic strip format, but the subject matter is very serious. Craig draws the images in pencil and inks, another artist does the coloring, another the writing, and yet another does the lettering.
The exhibit at the UU is sponsored by the Falmouth Immigrant Rights Coalition.
I came home to have lunch and was then off to the Museums on the Green for an Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration of songs, stories, and art. There were many sponsors, but Sandy Faiman-Silva, the head of Falmouth Immigrant Rights Coalition, organized this affair, and she needed help setting up the sound system, and I volunteered to do that. It was a two-hour celebration with the first hour being an interview between Sandy and the 96-year-old Chief of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, Chief Earle H. Mills and his daughter, Roxanne Mills Brown. Chief Mills might be 96, but he is still quite the storyteller. And storied did he tell! The Chair of the Select Board read the town proclamation declaring tomorrow Indigenous Peoples’ Day, but he noted that he was standing in for Heather Goldstone who had worked to get the proclamation passed. Go, Heather.
Then it was home to fix dinner for Jed’s mother, Marti. She drove down from Maine today and on Tuesday, Jed will drive her home to Washington, DC, in her car. He will then fly home. But first, he, along with Heather, Jonah, and Ollie have to get home from Vermont. They will arrive late tomorrow afternoon or early evening. They are still having beautiful weather and enjoying every minute of it.
