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Dec 2, a Holy Kind of Day in Haines
"Before you know what kindness really is, you must lose things." -Naomi Nye, from her poem, "Kindness". Dec. 2, 2:30 pm at Picture Point, visiting the memorial to Janae and David, overlooking the Dec. 2, 2020 landslide that killed them and changed our town forever....
Hail Festival Days
There is nothing like a sunny, snow-free, mild Easter to make a whole town smile. It is so nice to be out of the gloom of Lent and in to spring. I keep thinking about what the Dalai Lama said, that death is a change of clothes, and how Jesus would no doubt agree, and...
Sunday’s Thought
Happy Easter!
Happy April
With thirteen-plus hours of daylight now, the sun was up when I went to the pool this morning at 6:30, and I think some of the regulars were out walking in the fresh air with all the thrushes and robins where it sounds like spring too-- so the pool was kind of quiet....
Right Brain, Left Brain, Duck Brain?
So, a few days ago while walking our dogs on the beach, they ran into a mucky pond and chased a pair of mallards who have arrived earlier it seems than ever, like spring has. It's a good-new bad-news season. (Yes, no snow! Oh no! Why is it so mild?) We women...
Sunday’s Thought
“I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.” -- Garth Stein in The Art of Racing on the Rain.
So Busy Taking Care of..
Children! Yesterday I had the brunettes- and I couldn't find my camera, I apologize, but my life has been like that lately in that everything I'm looking for is under a pile of something I should be doing, before I do what I am actually doing... -- anyway, today I...