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On the Road Again
The bed is changed, the chickens are fed and watered, the plants are too, and I am all packed, the Blessed Virgin Mary medal is around my neck, and I am just about ready to catch the plane to Juneau on my way down south. (Really down south, not just Alaska-speak for...
Thank You, Elizabeth
The last page of the book that last year's first graders wrote on the life of civil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich says, "Thank you Elizabeth!" The children wrote the book after a trip to the library to learn about the namesake for the Feb. 16 Elizabeth...
Sunday’s Thought
"There is no less holiness at this time-- as you are reading this-- than there was on the day the Red Sea parted."- Annie Dillard
Love
I knew a family who came to Haines from down south-- real south, I think it was Missouri, or maybe Arkansas-- who celebrated Valentine's Day with a Valentine Tree. The branches were bare and draped in twinkling white lights and hung with paper hearts. They all camped...
Sunday’s Thought: Silly and Proud!
Brian Doyle, whose work I'm a big fan of, wrote about meeting Bishop Desmond Tutu in Portland back in 2015, and shared this impromptu riff Tutu gave on faith, "The world will say you are silly! Be proud of that!" Doyle said he didn't write it all down, as he was...
My February Speaking Schedule
Since you've asked what my schedule is: I will be giving a reading and answering questions (weather permitting as I'm flying from Haines) tomorrow, Friday Feb. 10 at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in Juneau at 6:30 and again at 8:00. There's an interview on...