Elizabeth Duvivier

This summer we begin some of the smaller gatherings that are going to be hosted here in Providence at Squam HQ and I could not be more thrilled to kick it off with a beautiful offering from MICHAEL GABRIELLE — he of the amazing macrame wall hanging you may have seen on my Instagram earlier this Spring. When I shared the photograph (below), my email box suddenly filled with people asking about a class and so, ta-DAH! We have a most wonderful class happening the … View Post

do not try to serve the whole world or do anything grandiose. instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is yours alone to sing falls into your open cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. only then will you know how to give yourself to the world so worthy of rescue. – martha postlewaite * *thanks to my beloved friend and traveling companion who read this to me this morning photo credit: … View Post

“The end is never the end. It’s always the beginning of something.” – Kate Lord Brown, The Perfume Garden Last December when I announced that I would be scaling back my work life so that I might focus time and energy on my creative projects, it meant that Squam HQ would also have to scale back. Thus, yesterday was Forrest’s last day with Squam as he is also ready to move on to new adventures. That’s the funny thing about endings, they always herald new … View Post

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves. ~Wendell Berry Our abiding love for Brooklyn Tweed is well-documented. BT is a company that upholds the very definition of what it means to create community, … View Post