South Mountain Company

Martha’s Vineyard’s integrated design/build company

Dear Reader,
This blog is now an archive. John Abrams (Founder of South Mountain, author of this blog, and a book of the same name) retired on December 31, 2022. All posts published up until this date are preserved below.

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Deval Patrick

Catching With A Summer Gone By

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I’ve been neglecting to write.  Time to get back to it.

Interesting summer.  July was all sunshine. Hammock weather.

Lying in mine I read a provocative new book about our future — The Great Disruption by Paul Gilding, an Australian who is the former head of Greenpeace International and more recently sustainability advisor to corporations and NGOs.  He is now on the faculty at Cambridge University’s Program for Sustainable Leadership.  As I read this book I came to see it as the most accessible and full-bodied treatment to date of the effects of climate change on our planet, our economies, our lives.

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All Is Forgiven

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I managed to get through the Martha’s Vineyard summer attending only one fundraiser.  That’s a record.  And, for the first time in at least a decade, I did no fundraising for the causes I care about.  I must admit it felt good.  Fundraising is hard.

The single event I went to  – for our Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick – was a good one,.  It happened to be scheduled for the day after we found out Ted Kennedy died.  Deval spoke about Kennedy.  He said, “ I knew him before I ever met him because my mother used to say, to no one in particular” (and here he slipped into a drawl), “I just love me some Kennedy.”

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