Blog
Advent Thought (s) Dec. 17 Ring the Bells
"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."-- Leonard Cohen from his song Anthem. Beth and I rang the bell for the Salvation Army’s Christmas donation kettle at Olerud's...
Jan 9 A Good Night for Soup & Friends
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien A cold snowy day, filled with packing and errands and lists. The Christmas tree is out behind the wood shed, the decorations are in the box in Chip's...
Jan 8: Check, Check, Check (almost) Check
“The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is...
Sunday’s Thought
"Don’t give up on truth and beauty and justice, no matter the headlines, no matter how dire things seem. The light always returns—always always always."- Anne Lamott It is the Feast of the Epiphany for those of you that follow these things. The day the church...
Epiphany
“I also learned this year that my delight grows—much like love and joy—when I share it.”- Ross Gay, The Book of Delights Jan 6, Saturday, noon. Sunny, cold (19 degrees), light north wind. Ebbing tide. The sun pulls on we Alaskans, practically cave...
Jan 5 Singing in the Snow
The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact. Every decayed stump and moss-grown stone and rail, and the dead leaves of autumn, are concealed by a clean napkin of snow. In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the...
Jan 4 Keep the Faith
“While the rosary has many purposes, it is often prayed before, during, and after the time of death. It is considered an intercessory prayer, which asks for Mary’s intercession with God.” --Instructions from The Rosary Prayer Service for the Deceased. O sisters, let’s...