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Dec 23 Advent Love in a Picture
For the mind can build itself a home, but only the heart can live in it-- Mark Nepo, from his poem, Art Lesson It has been a very busy day so I'm afraid I'll be brief -- the family has descended from far and near ( well, Juneau, and Young and Small Tracts roads)-- and...
Fall Colors in Tenakee Post Card
Well, it's snowing today in Haines, the first of the season, with a winter weather advisory and everything. We are in Tenakee Springs. Down in the tropics on Chichagof Island (for a few more days) where it is raining, again. But yesterday was a beautiful day for a...
Sunday’s Thought
It is easier, I think, to have faith in something greater than ourselves, and to trust that this too shall pass when you live in a place that demands awe and wonder pretty much all the time - ( well, when the clouds lift anyway...) Still, this campaign season I am...
Rain and Rainbows
The wind is still blowing but the rain let up, and the sky has bright moments. The light in late September is beautiful when it shines through the gray. We three friends walked my two dogs and talked about the summer, how it went, was it good? Yes of course, except...
Dispatch from Moose Camp
"Meanwhile the world goes on. / Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of rain/ are moving across the landscapes,/ over the prairies and the deep trees,/ the mountains and the rivers./ Meanwhile, the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,/are heading home again."--...
Sunday’s Rose
Yesterday I was walking on the beach with Beth, and our now two dogs. There were four, but we buried first Pearl and then Lucy this year. It is also fall, suddenly it seems, the time of the year when things die, and we fill the shed with firewood for the one thing we...
Tenakee Time
“Ten times a day something happens to me like this- some strengthening throb of amazement- some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” – Mary...