Something happened to love, maybe recently and maybe decades ago. We re-wrote it, changed its rules. Made it our own and pretended that doing so had no consequences. As long as we love the way we want to and others do the same, what’s the harm, right? But then something else happens. We forget to…

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If you’ve ever attended a 6 Stones event, you’ve probably met John Moody. He’s the resident grill master, the consummate volunteer and the near-ubiquitous face at our main offices in Bedford. If there’s a chance to serve, John is hard at work before the volunteer registration even opens. But it wasn’t always that way. A disabled…

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We hear a lot about Cities nowadays. Sports franchises play for them, superheroes fight to save them and talented people put them on the map. There’s something about a city — a place defined as much by its people as it is by geography or infrastructure — that inspires. It elevates us beyond a sense…

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BEDFORD – The air hums with music: the chatter of families mingling with the hard punch of speakers at the end of the block. This quarter mile of residential road, normally devoid of activity no matter the hour, is teeming with life. Children race the length of the closed-off street, leaping into emergency vehicles opened…

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There’s a tension in almost every human being between the things they want to do and the things they have to do. It’s the heart of our favorite sayings. “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.” “To find out what one is fitted to do, and…

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