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Advent Thought(s) Dec. 22. Cheers to Community
"All along the echoes sing the same delight." -- Susan Cooper, in her poem, "The Shortest Day". It is getting down to the Christmas wire. The radio station is playing all the grumpy Christmas songs. To be fair to KHNS, community radio for Haines, Klukwan and Skagway,...
The Second to Last Day of the Year
"For when we begin looking-- and I mean really looking, with an attention cleared of formulations and preconceptions-- we begin to see combinations and possibilities, order and beauty, anywhere." John Haines Dec. 30, Saturday morning,9:45 am on the Chilkat. Low tide....
Dec 29 Light is Particle & Wave
“Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time.” – Terry Pratchett Dec. 29 2:45...
Dec. 28 What’s in a Name?
"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself." - Alan Alda "Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, 'Why me?' Then a voice answers,'Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.' "- Charlie Brown Chip spent the night on the window seat in a...
Dec 27 Under the Covers (And the Weather.)
“My kind of singing isn’t meant to be perfect. It’s meant to reflect the imperfections of a human being like me.” ― Willie Nelson, It's a Long Story: My Life. For Christmas my daughter gave me a jar of her home made fire cider (it cures everything) and the next day I...
December 26
" And all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even the mouse. For like everyone else in that house which was old, the poor mouse was in bed with a miserable cold."- Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline's Christmas. Christmas Day was a wonder-- pretty busy-- and...
Christmas is Love
"God is light and in him there is no darkness at all." -1 John 1:5 It's Christmas Eve, dinner is smoked salmon fettuccine -- it's always the same, and just family (that means 17 of us tonight.) We have the extension set up and the tablecloths are ironed. Tomorrow will...