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Jan 10 Beach to Beach
Margaret River is both a region and a bustling market town famed for its wine, incredible surfing, gorgeous coastline, multi-chambered caves and mysterious karri (eucalyptus) forests. - Trip Advisor I walked on one beach and packed for another. Haines today: 15...
Thank You, Elizabeth
The last page of the book that last year's first graders wrote on the life of civil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich says, "Thank you Elizabeth!" The children wrote the book after a trip to the library to learn about the namesake for the Feb. 16 Elizabeth...
Sunday’s Thought
"There is no less holiness at this time-- as you are reading this-- than there was on the day the Red Sea parted."- Annie Dillard
Love
I knew a family who came to Haines from down south-- real south, I think it was Missouri, or maybe Arkansas-- who celebrated Valentine's Day with a Valentine Tree. The branches were bare and draped in twinkling white lights and hung with paper hearts. They all camped...
Sunday’s Thought: Silly and Proud!
Brian Doyle, whose work I'm a big fan of, wrote about meeting Bishop Desmond Tutu in Portland back in 2015, and shared this impromptu riff Tutu gave on faith, "The world will say you are silly! Be proud of that!" Doyle said he didn't write it all down, as he was...
My February Speaking Schedule
Since you've asked what my schedule is: I will be giving a reading and answering questions (weather permitting as I'm flying from Haines) tomorrow, Friday Feb. 10 at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in Juneau at 6:30 and again at 8:00. There's an interview on...
Holy Moly. It Must Be Winter.
My friend Teresa calls Haines "spiritual boot camp," because it can be so challenging to love our neighbors as ourselves, especially after meetings like the one last night, where many angry people, who had been misinformed and riled up all day, apparently --...