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Sunday’s Thoughts
Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually. - Issa AND He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. - Psalm 25 I am being paid back for all of my socializing last weekend with a cold. It's not Covid ( I have taken 2 tests), just...
Sunday’s Thought
From Emily Dickinson's poem #1176: We'll never know how high we are Till we are asked to rise And then if we are true to plan Our statures touch the skies--
Good News and Bad News
In yoga this week, the instructor, Nancy, began the practice announcing that she had good news and bad news. There was a worried silence. Then she asked which we'd like first. Some said the bad, some said the good. "What if the good news and bad news is the same?" She...
Fundraiser for Faith Weds. 23 at the Elks
In other news, tomorrow night at the Elks Lodge (5-8) there will be a fundraising dinner for Faith Touhy. Dianne Nelson said Faith has been under going chemo treatments for breast cancer, and has had to stop working, and while medicaid has been helpful, "the bills...
Small World Wonders
It's spring break at the school this week and the Haines Venturer Scouts are in Ecuador climbing mountains and riding bikes. Their last big trip was to Africa where they climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. (For a small out of the way place, we sure get around.) Nancy Nash was...
Sunday’s Thought
From Annie Dillard's The Writing Life: Admire the world for never ending on you- as you would admire an opponent, without taking your eyes from him, or walking away.
The Shark is Still Here
It usually takes the ravens, magpies and eagles a day to pick a deer carcass clean down to a pile of fur. They even eat the hide. But the gutted sleeper shark liver remains intact- as is all the viscera, which is splayed out in a seeping pile in the sand next to the...