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Sunday’s Thought
"There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun."-- Thomas Merton
Summer Morning
Grandma Joanne is still sleeping, the crows are cawing in my cherry trees, Chip is singing in the shower, the tide is flowing past Pyramid Island like a river, Christian is grinding coffee, and John just called and asked, "What's for breakfast, those hens laying yet?"...
Sunday’s Thought
" If I become a center of love and kindness in this moment, then in a perhaps small but hardly insignificant way, the world now has a nucleus of love and kindness it lacked the moment before." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
Pete’s Eulogy
A lot of folks have asked for a copy of Pete Lapham's eulogy, so here it is. This is a big chunk of words for this format, and since I can't figure out how to attach it as a file you can save and read later, I figured I'd just paste it in. I also wrote his obituary in...
Early August Post Card
I am writing Pete's obituary today, so it was good to start the day with a little raspberry picking, watering the flower boxes, a walk on the beach with Phoebe and Forte, and some more raspberry picking...
Love a Fair
We are all resting at our house after the Southeast Alaska State Fair, which we all agreed was one of the best, if not the best, in years. Dancing Friday night to the Curtis Delgado Chicago blues-style band from Portland, Chip kept laughing and saying, "look how old...
Sunday’s Thought
From Raymond Carver's poem At Least: "I hate to seem greedy-I have so much to be thankful for already. But I want to get up early one morning, at least. And go to my place with some coffee and wait. Just wait, to see what's going to happen."