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PublishedJanuary 12, 2023
Column: Stocking up, part one
Home Ecology is a synthesis of two related academic disciplines: human ecology and home economics, both born of the idea that we live in a world of limited resources. When we recognize the limits, our lives can be both comfortable and sustainable. Shlomit Auciello is an award-winning writer, photographer, and human ecologist who has lived in Midcoast Maine since 1988. Home Ecology is published here on a bi-weekly basis.
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PublishedAugust 4, 2022
Column: Fourteen items or fewer
Shlomit Auciello touches on the topic of time, and how a routine trip to the grocery store shows how people manage it differently.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2022
Column: The comfort zone
Shlomit Auciello writes about using air-conditioning in her apartment, among other events which happened in the past week.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2022
Column: Quick response is not always of service
Shlomit Auciello describes her experience with menu QR codes at a local restaurant.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2022
Column: Hugs and kisses, the rat elevator, and the separation of church and state
Shlomit Auciello touches on a range of subjects including hugs with friends and relatives, the rat elevator at a friend's home, as well as the separation of church and state in regards to recent court rulings.
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PublishedJuly 7, 2022
Column: Photoshopping reality
Shlomit Auciello writes about truth can be distorted visually and verbally.
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PublishedJune 30, 2022
Column: Closure never comes
Schlmoit Auciello writes about picking strawberries, and how the juicy, red fruit brings back past life memories.
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PublishedJune 23, 2022
Column: Flying dreams
In spite of the solitary nature of our dance, we are not alone. Rather, the dance encourages us to feel ourselves sharing the space, and by extension the world, with everyone in it. Spirits, as Sting would have it, in the material world.
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PublishedJune 9, 2022
Column: Signs and portents
It's a lot easier to put up a cheap sign than to show up at a specific time and place to meet with your neighbors and honestly discuss important issues, or even just to cast a ballot while the polls are open. How we say a thing is often more important than what words we use.
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PublishedJune 2, 2022
Column: Overstimulated
And if those fantasies are of power and conquest, of the permanent silencing of those who oppose us? I am rambling and it hurts to look at this reality we are creating as we hurtle toward an exit none of us wants to take.
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