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How I Got here

Have you met Pete Walker and Rachel Matusko, our most recent new neighbors on Chebeague Island? Pete and Rachel bought the house on South Road previously owned by Claire Ross and Chris Burgess. Rachel works as a Registered Nurse and is working towards her Nurse Practitioner license in Primary Care. She previously worked as a traveling nurse, allowing the couple to travel extensively throughout the country, settling at times in North Dakota and along the California coast. Pete was a Nuclear Engineer for the Navy at the Portsmouth Shipyard for five years before switching to a career in Sales Engineering for a software company. His job is remote. Pete and Rachel met at the University of Maine at Orono. Rachel is a native Mainer having grown up in Cape Elizabeth. Pete grew up in Wilton, Connecticut, and received his degree from Orono in Civil Engineering. The couple was looking to buy a house in the Southern Maine region when everyone else was doing the same. They found the house on Zillow, visited the island, and found it to be a good fit. Mowgli, their Pyrenees/Husky mix is especially pleased with the living situation. You may hear him as you walk by their house, but truly he is all bark, no bite.

Book StudyGroupwithGloria Brown Book Group returns with an 8-session study of Resmaa Menachem’s book: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.

Our plan is to meet weekly on Sunday afternoons at 3 o’clock for about an hour. As Covid recedes, we hope to move from the Zoom platform to a hybrid meeting, in-person at the library with a Zoom option.

Beginning Sunday, February 6 th , 3 PM via Zoom: meeting # 820 4556 3188 | password: 20152020 EVERYONE IS INVITED TO ATTEND FMI: gjbrown58a@gmail.com

From goodreads.com: In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn’t just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma

as well. So do blue Americans—our police. This book paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system. It offers a step-by-step solution—a healing process—in addition to incisive social commentary.

MARCH 2022 CHEBEAGUE ISLAND COUNCIL CALENDAR

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