I live and write on Lingít Aaní, and gratefully acknowledge the past, present and future caretakers of this beautiful place, the Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan.

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Dec 14 : Something Good can Happen Anytime Too

Dec 14 : Something Good can Happen Anytime Too

"Yes"  -a poem by William Stafford: "It could happen anytime, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen. It could you know. That's why I wake  and look out- no guarantees  in this life. But some bonuses, like morning, like right now, like noon, like evening."...

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Cloudy With a 70 Percent Chance of Love

So this week we've had snow, sun, clouds, wind, calm, cold, warm-- and Alaska made the national news because there's not enough snow in Anchorage to start the Iditarod sled dog race there this year. Today? The clouds fell from the sky and landed on the beach.  In...

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Tuesday’s Thought (s)

"The birds they sang  at the break of day  Start again  I heard them say  Don't dwell on what  has passed away  or what is yet to be...  Ring the bells that still can ring  Forget your perfect offering  There is a crack in everything  That's how the light gets in."--...

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Friday? Seriously?

Monday I had half of my teeth cleaned, not the top half or the bottom half, but the right side of my mouth from the molars to the gap between my front teeth. Which may be why I felt so lopsided until the second half was cleaned yesterday afternoon and my balance was...

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Sunday’s Thought

 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all...

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Looking Up

Yesterday on the radio Janine said she thought the sky was growing lighter and that there may even be a little sun, so Pearl and I looked up, and sure enough there was a blue haze behind the gray, so we ran out the door and managed to walk half the beach before the...

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January Blues

The Haines assembly did some great good the other night by supporting the pre-school and giving them another year in the old Human Resource Building where they have been for over thirty years, and the innovative plan to join forces with the Senior Center facility and...

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