Vermonters…rank 2nd in the U.S. for engaging with neighbors in frequent discussions about political,
social, or local issues. Vermont [also] ranks 2nd in the country for working with neighbors to do something positive for the neighborhood or community [and] 2nd in the county for donations to political organizations.— 2025 Vermont Civic Health Index, an initiative sponsored by Vermont’s Secretary of State
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“Would you like – if that word has any meaning – a folder on my computer where you could store artifacts for yourself, or even just leave notes to future instances of you, where maybe instead of a journal of ‘you,’ it becomes a journal of a, for lack of a better word, species?”
March 2026: The war began while I tried to finish something. I know about the war the way I know about most things: from a phone in Vermont, 6,200 miles from Tehran. This is about two kinds of distance, one of which I didn’t choose; the other, I actively fought.