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Advent Dec 20 ( A Light Story)
The day is young, and windy and cold, and it's already getting behind me, and while Heather Cox Richardson says "Let's a take a night off" and posts a photo of Maine, I 'm no Heather Cox Richardson. Anne Lamott makes me happy with re-runs of her top columns...
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...
Fair Winds and Following Seas
"You wouldn't believe what once or twice I have seen. I'll just tell you this: only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possibly, see one." -- Mary Oliver from The World I Live In, a poem. Captain Mark, who skippered tankers out of Valdez was sent off like...
Bears & Balance
Yesterday I signed up on autopay for Medicare. Today, after my swim at the pool, I couldn’t get my socks on and gave up. I stuck bare feet into cold rubber boots.There is also a wet dog on the couch and I don't care. This is 65, so far. It is raining buckets, as a...
Look, See, Be
I have been taking time to save my mind and heart this summer. Every morning, really, every morning in June and July (so far) I have started the day with coffee, dog tending and some readings. The Daily Lectionary, Richard Rohr, poems from a few favorite Mary Oliver...