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Singers, Nesters and Friends
“Come with rain, O loud southwester!/ Bring the singer, bring the nester/” – Robert Frost, from his poem “To a Thawing Wind.” 3:30 pm, 35 degrees, stormy, small craft advisory for southerly gusts to 40 knots. Rough seas and whitecaps. Feels like snow (it is in the...
A Few Things Bright and Beautiful
We have been moose hunting a lot, which really means sitting very quietly for many hours in beautiful places, silently watching and listening, and after a while, sometimes napping and reading. I finished 2 1/2 novels, and an entire New Yorker, and a bunch of short...
September, So Far
When this is finally over ('The Virus') as the little kids say, in a deep whisper, I will never say no to an invitation to coffee, or wine, or dinner or a party or even decorating the library for the holidays even though I'm not crafty at all and can't untangle...
Thank You, You Did Good!
You may not know how much good you have done for Haines by ordering my books from The Bookstore here, but you have, and I want to thank you very, very much.This story by Claire Stremple was aired on KHNS here in Haines this morning, and I didn't even realize what an...
A Proposal
Today Alaska lost our 38th and 39th residents to Covid-19, and a family, friends, neighbors, co-workers lost someone they loved. I understand the right to privacy prohibits us from knowing their names, but I don't like that they will be remembered publicly as # 38 and...
Me Thinks Too Much
In yoga class we are taught to hold one hand on our heart and one on our belly and breathe in and out, inhale and exhale, and the longer the exale the better, as it relaxes the nervous system. I've been doing the breathing part ever since I was recovering from being...
Sunday’s Thought
"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic... and if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in...