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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Monday’s Thought from Ernestine Hayes

Monday’s Thought from Ernestine Hayes

"There are moments that keep themselves in our memories: unexpected flashpoints of meaning we don't even recognize until the years, loves, worries have tempered the cloudy chatter of everyday concerns and have left only the brightest flashes: permanent, unchanging...

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Sunday’s Thought

 "The amazing thing is that prayers are effective even when the person being prayed for is unaware of them." - Madeleine L'Engle  

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You Have to See Cory Mann’s Smokin’ Fish

It must be December because it is so darn dark this morning. There's that, and the alarm clock flashed 3:36 when I heard my husband loading the wood stove and a roof-a-lanche thundered off the eave above my head and crashed onto the porch roof below making the little...

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The Art of the Possible: Leave Chilkoot Be

 Last night as I was sliding along the snowy roads to the Haines Borough Assembly meeting, a commentator on the radio, speaking of some other bigger deal far away-- not the hydro-electric dam proposed for a little lake in the upper Chilkoot valley-- quoted Bismarck,...

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Another Snow Day! Breaking News.

Yes. No school. The library is closed, the clinic is closed. The senior center is closed. No pre-school, no Headstart. The post office is even closed. Steve on the radio says, "only the emergency and snow clearing personnel should be out right now." Yikes. This is...

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Snow on Snow on Snow

 Short Term Forecast   Special Weather Statement Winter Storm Warning       Really, is there anymore to say this morning?  Okay, "1-2 feet of additional snow" might be good to know. And the dreaded word "warmer" and "highs near 34"  which means we need to get the snow...

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Sunday’s Thought

 "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --Albert Einstein    

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