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The Second to Last Day of the Year
"For when we begin looking-- and I mean really looking, with an attention cleared of formulations and preconceptions-- we begin to see combinations and possibilities, order and beauty, anywhere." John Haines Dec. 30, Saturday morning,9:45 am on the Chilkat. Low tide....
Sunday’s Thought
"Give us grateful hearts, our Father, for all thy mercies, and make us mindful of the needs of others; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." -- from the Book of Common Prayer
Welcome Molly Frances!
Little Molly Frances is here! ( All 6. lbs.15 oz and 19 inches... and what about her hair? Well, It has a reddish tinge.. so time will tell.) Mother and baby are well. The rest of us are too.Having a December baby makes singing "Joy to the World" that much better. The...
Merry and Bright
Eliza has been very busy while we wait. Knitting. Baking. Making origami ornaments. James has even been painting, and his mother has made a nice holiday display of his art work. (Clearly a gifted child!) Me? I mostly make messes and take pictures. I like playing...
Calm and Bright
Waiting for a baby in December in a little northern city, with snow falling and the neighborhood Christmas lights twinkling all but perhaps an hour or two of these short winter days, is kind of nice, actually. Well, if you are not the one nine months and four days...
Wachet! betet! wachet!
That's Watch! pray! watch! in Bach's German from the cantata he wrote and that was first perfomed for the second Sunday in Advent in 1716. That year it was December 6. Three hundred years later I heard it in Chapel by The Lake in Juneau on Sunday Dec. 4. I will say it...
Sunday’s Thought
"Charity - giving to the poor - is an essential part of Christian morality.... I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare." - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.