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Bears, Ballots and JKT: Good News from Alaska.
My friend Kim was taking care of her dad in his last days, when she read a column by former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy titled, “We Could All Use a Soul Box.” He says a soul box is a collection of hopeful things to look at when you are down. His includes a clip...
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,...
Advent Thoughts Dec. 21, Winter Solstice.
It is the darkest day of the year, and in church we light the Advent candle for Love. I am feeling so much love. Just not the kind I want to, right now. As my granddaughter says, I have a lot of feelings. They say you can balance an egg upright on the equinox. If I...
Advent Dec 20 ( A Light Story)
The day is young, and windy and cold, and it's already getting behind me, and while Heather Cox Richardson says "Let's a take a night off" and posts a photo of Maine, I 'm no Heather Cox Richardson. Anne Lamott makes me happy with re-runs of her top columns...
Advent Thought (s) Dec. 19 Celebrate the Shadows
I walked today almost alone,-- just the dogs and me-- in circles, with my back to the wind down on the beach, and then into the wind in protected woods. I did this for an hour in between work or chores or choices or whatever it is I do all day-- looping, marching,...
Dec. 18 Advent Scenes (love and joy)
Here is a postcard from December 18-- sunny, cold ( it's 1 degree right now) north gales to 50 knots. Sometimes I see life in scenes, like movies with stories in them-- and today I saw a bunch of them-- yesterday too for that matter. The best one was saved for last (...
Advent Thought (s) Dec. 17 Ring the Bells
"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."-- Leonard Cohen from his song Anthem. Beth and I rang the bell for the Salvation Army’s Christmas donation kettle at Olerud's...