We live on a fence, as it were, between nostalgic remembrances of the past and hopes for the future. There is a kind of sigh that comes when focusing on the present. We are not entirely comfortable with what has come to passed nor of what lies ahead. The word aiglatson (nostalgia spelled backwards) reminds us that there are trials and difficulties in the future that we have some say over how to shape.

Tom is celebrating his 47th year of ordination. In those years he has served churches in CA, CT, IA, ME, and MA. Twelve of those years were as the Executive for the Congregational Denomination (NACCC), and 15 as Senior Minister of First Congregational Church of Nantucket. Presently he is Interim Executive Director of Sustainable Nantucket. He and LeeAnne have six children and five grandchildren, and they have moved back to the Island permanently.