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Carmen Hinkey

Carmen Hinkey

After two years at the Villa Primavera Community in Paraguay, my husband and I have returned to New York and live at the Mount Community. Our children (who are grown) live nearby, and we are happier than we can say to live on the shores of our favorite river, the mighty Hudson.

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June 12, 2020

This One's On the House

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A month ago, I thought the media would never be able to deal with anything besides the coronavirus pandemic. Less than two weeks after the grim milestone of one hundred thousand Covid-19 deaths in the USA, George Floyd was murdered, and the virus...

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May 14, 2020

It Takes A Community To Raise A Child

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For my husband and me, as new parents, raising five children was at times overwhelming. The years in which they were making simultaneous demands on us are now somewhat of a blur.

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April 27, 2020

Letter to God

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Today, occupied as I am by all things coronavirus, I thought about that little book again. I wanted to write a letter to God, to talk to him about the heartbreaking death stories that pummel my senses each day, the men and women who are gone before...

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March 28, 2020

No Return to Normalcy

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So much has been said about what’s going on; about how to cope. Websites and blogs and memes have mushroomed overnight to provide advice and distraction. The media is full of stories from inside homes where life has been upended – almost to the...

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