I live and write on Lingít Aaní, and gratefully acknowledge the past, present and future caretakers of this beautiful place, the Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan.

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Cherishing the Chilkat on the last day of November

Cherishing the Chilkat on the last day of November

We love the way we live here. It's not an easy life, but it's a good life.- Lani Hotch It's simple for me. Because this is where I live. If you're not going to fight for that, what are you going to stand up for? - J.R. Churchill 8:40 am, snowing lightly, light...

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Another Good Monday

It's not that caring for babies is difficult, that's easy. It's the doing of anything else that's the hard part. Getting dressed for instance. (James and I are still in are pajamas at eight, even though we have been up since six, and his mother has been gone an hour....

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Sunday’s Thought

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obliged to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."-- Maya Angelou

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Farewell to Ballybeg

The thing about a play, about rocking a baby, about the toast at her wedding 30 years later, about the Northern lights over Mt. Ripinsky following the cast party--  truly about this one wonderful life we have--- is that once it's done it's gone. Yet thanks to our...

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Sunday’s Thought

“What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.”  --Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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This is Not a Rehearsal…

It's life these days for the seven of us in the play- and our director, stage manager and the four tech/prop/make-up people. "Dancing at Lughnasa" has been our life for the darkest, worst some would say-- part of the winter, so I suppose the sunshine and blue sky --...

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