East End

Editorial

Greetings from the Exurbs

As massive lines of luxury cars again snake their way through the East End’s pumpkin patches this fall, we’ve been hearing many people lately puzzle over one big conundrum. How do we characterize the place where we live?

Growing up here among the potato and cauliflower fields, many of us were told by our teachers that we lived in a rural area. As children, it gave us a solid understanding of where we were, in a place that gave us vast swaths of open space, plentiful if monochromatic farms, but also the economic depression and cultural isolation so common in rural areas.

Sag Harbor

Resilience

All For The Fireboat

Have you ever experienced a situation in which your emotions have reached a point where they literally trigger a physical response within your own body; oftentimes manifesting as pain in one form or another? 

What we may not realize is that our mind is always the culprit that initiates this process, as it attempts to interpret the event at hand. It’s a concept referred to as “pain-body,” and is most closely associated with the teachings of Eckhart Tolle; the spiritualist and acclaimed author best known for his two celebrated works: “The Power of Now,” and “A New Earth.”