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Nov 10 on the Chilkat, all is calm.
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility.To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope - Wendell Berry 9:30, calm, high tide, cloudy. 42 degrees. What a difference a day...
Sunday’s Thought
From a poem, "Snow Geese", by Mary Oliver (her arrangement of words, a little like geese flying, see?) Oh to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone yet it is ours, and not by the century or the years,...
Hospice Fair Booth Wants Your Pies
I had this note waiting in my email when the internet came back on: "Helllloooo, Last night Nancy dreamt anxiously that the Fair started today. And we weren’t ready…So, I’m in the swing of it now—the asking for desserts.So if you can think of folks who have never...
Shake, Prattle and Can
I meant to give you a wonderful update and some brilliant insights yesterday-- but then we had an earthquake so I couldn't. Really. 5.9 at 2:54 in the morning. It shook Pearl and I right off the couch, and as it kept shaking, I thought I better get up and stand over...
Happy Tuesday
I am up early, as I had hoped to get to Morning Muscles at 6:00 while Chip was still sleeping-- but it was canceled as Marnie texted very early-- 5:30-- that she needed some sleep. (Happy Tuesday!) There have been bears up on the hill in her neighborhood, and down in...
Monday’s Art News ( Sort of)
It is now four weeks since Chip's surgery, and we are all settling in, in one way, and moving forward in others, and there is progress, all positive, but healing bones takes time and patience, and certain amount of creative thinking, like a lot of good things do. My...
Sunday’s Thought
"So friends, everyday do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the World. Work for nothing." - from Wendell Berry's poem Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front and if Jim Wilson's rock garden is not enough to convince of Berry's wisdom, read this...