Memorial flowers

Odd to see peonies from my garden and the card we all signed on the front page of the paper today. It was my dear friend Diane Wortis who suggested the flowers – so obvious, but I think we were all in shock on Monday. Diane actually saw the arrest of Henry Dozier as she drove to work at the Clark Institute on Monday morning, and says it was frightening and incongruous to see ten policemen with guns drawn in a parking lot in the Berkshires. These things, we all feel, just don’t happen here. But they do.

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Karen Christensen is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, and scholar who writes about the many ways women have gained and wielded power. She is the owner and CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group, a former trustee of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Press, a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations, and the founder of the Train Campaign. Subscribe to Karen’s Letter @Substack https://karenchristensen.substack.com or try her Home Ecology newsletter. She can also be found on Twitter @karenchristenze.