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The Best Case Scenario
Without warning thresholds can open directly before our feet. These thresholds are often shorelines to new worlds.- John O’Donohue In the fall of 2021, I visited a clairvoyant in Haines. She told me that my dream would be coming true in the new year. You...
Tidying Up Is Always a Good Idea
I listened to an interview with Rep. Andy Kim, who was photographed around midnight after the battle in the Capitol was finally over, picking up the trash the terrorists left behind. There he was, with his mask on, holding a plastic bag, trying to tidy up. "I really...
Sunday’s Thought
“So here are the reasons I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need the most.”—Camille Dungy Also, I am going to hear her...
Gunalchéesh!
You have helped raise just over 100,000 dollars for the Chilkat Valley Community Foundation Emergency Relief Fund. The grants will begin in about a week. I appreciate the donations in my name as a so-called Living Treasure, but honestly, you are solid gold. I would...
A Post Card for January 7
Well, all I can add to the horror of yesterday's news, is that this is not going to be the dry January I had planned. I couldn't watch CNN without a gin and tonic. I had also planned to take the tree down on Epiphany, but I couldn't bear to lose Christmas, my country...
Kayaks and Covid
The Chilkat Valley, and Haines and Klukwan are especially good places to be right now. Both have only had very low (to basically non-existent) Covid-19 cases, none currently, and we have already begun the vaccine roll out. All but two of us on the Sunday church Zoom...
Sunday’s Thought
Whenever someone reveals the story of their life, that ground on which they’re standing is holy ground. That’s common ground. We’re human, and we’ve got a story. If I listen to yours and you to mine, we won’t agree on a whole lot, but we will understand each other,...