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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Dec 23 Advent Love in a Picture

Dec 23 Advent Love in a Picture

For the mind can build itself a home, but only the heart can live in it-- Mark Nepo, from his poem, Art Lesson It has been a very busy day so I'm afraid I'll be brief -- the family has descended from far and near ( well, Juneau, and Young and Small Tracts roads)-- and...

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Jan 5 Singing in the Snow

Jan 5 Singing in the Snow

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact. Every decayed stump and moss-grown stone and rail, and the dead leaves of autumn, are concealed by a clean napkin of snow. In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the...

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Jan 4 Keep the Faith

Jan 4 Keep the Faith

“While the rosary has many purposes, it is often prayed before, during, and after the time of death. It is considered an intercessory prayer, which asks for Mary’s intercession with God.” --Instructions from The Rosary Prayer Service for the Deceased. O sisters, let’s...

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January 3 Gaining Daylight

January 3 Gaining Daylight

“In each generation, we are tested. Will we love our neighbors as ourselves, or will we measure our responsibilities to one another in accordance with whomever we deem to be in or out of our social circles? …There’s a way in which we can come together as groups, as...

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Jan 2 Snow and Screens

Jan 2 Snow and Screens

“No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work. Television rules that out.” ― Mark Helprin (Winter's Tale) Being...

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The Moose that Came Home for Christmas

The Moose that Came Home for Christmas

Back in September a healthy young bull moose escaped from his enclosure at the Kroschel Wildlife Center on Mosquito Lake Road. He had lived there since he was a baby.  Steve Kroschel has permits for this sort of thing. He named him Duck Moses, after his savior, Duck...

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year

  “I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms.” – Wendell Berry New Year’s Eve 2023, Sunday, Noon,...

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