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Seeing the World
"See the world for what it is, and not what people think it is."- James D. Emilia is typing and coloring. She punches in her name and a thought or two and then pulls the paper out and draws a picture. I tell her writing is creative, good for you, and a nice way to...
Sunday’s Thought
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. ― Rumi
Flying to Juneau
I took my chances and flew to Juneau for a long weekend. ( 'What's a week-end?' for me it was Weds evening - Sun afternoon.) I just wanted to see the kids and waiting for the perfect time these still-Covid but back to school days, means never leaving home. My sister...
Alaska Quarterly Review Literary Series Continues
I'm looking forward to this event with terrific poets Pattiann Rogers and Laura Kolbe next Friday-- mark it on your calendar. Laura Kolbe is a doctor and medical ethicist in New York whose book Little Pharma is one of the most anticipated publications of 2021 and...
No Second Dart
I'm preparing for a busy fall, with Alaska Quarterly Review events (2 Fridays a month until April), a Zoom Find the Good meeting with the Kodiak library tonight, and Anchorage and Juneau November 3-8. If your group, library, school would like a Zoom (or real) visit,...
Good Days
October sunshine and fresh snow is especially welcome following the storm last weekend. Five inches of rain in 48 hours and gales raking the beach, the trees, the house. On the radar it looked like a hurricane, and in the middle of Saturday the eye passed over, and...
In the Spirit of September
September 11 was Chip's birthday, and it is always a little odd, both remembering and celebrating. Still, one thing I choose to hold onto about the terrorist attacks twenty years ago, is that everyone who was trapped in the towers or the Pentagon or on the plane that...