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Nov 28 Falling in Love With This Place Again
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under...
Sunday’s Thought
"There are random moments-- tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from the children's rooms-- when I feel a wavelike...
Chilkat Morning Postcard (and a bit of a community calendar)
These Chilkat mornings are slaying me. They begin all foggy and still, and then the clouds lift and everything swirls all white and blue and green. You'd think a person would be used to it when you see it everyday, but that's not true. The neighbors and the dog...
Thursday? Already? Seriously?
My life is revolving around play rehearsals and all the other to-doings associated with it. (Feb. 27,28 and March 1 in the Chilkat Center.) I have to make my hair darker, iron my costume. Find socks, and reading glasses. And a tea pot. It was very good last night that...
Teach Your Children Well
The say that there is some Biblical thing- a curse even-- that prevents women from recalling the pain of child birth so we will have another baby, but there may be also a kind of magic that makes grandmothers forget how much work young children are. We have had two...
Sunday’s Thought
Lord make me an instrument of your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not...
Their Mom is 30 Today
I would like to tell you something profound about how I feel today-- kind of warm and teary, to tell you the truth- because 30 years ago this afternoon at 1 o'clock my daughter Sarah was born on the Haines clinic in a blizzard-- (WAIT! WHOOPS? Sarah wasn't born...