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Advent Thought Dec. 16, We Will Rock You
Leaving the grocery store, a young man carried my bags out to the car in shirt sleeves. The wind scoured Main Street. I was wrapped in down and wool—“I can make two trips,” I said, “you will get frostbite.” He said he doesn’t feel the cold, and as we walked to my car,...
January 3 Gaining Daylight
“In each generation, we are tested. Will we love our neighbors as ourselves, or will we measure our responsibilities to one another in accordance with whomever we deem to be in or out of our social circles? …There’s a way in which we can come together as groups, as...
Jan 2 Snow and Screens
“No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work. Television rules that out.” ― Mark Helprin (Winter's Tale) Being...
The Moose that Came Home for Christmas
Back in September a healthy young bull moose escaped from his enclosure at the Kroschel Wildlife Center on Mosquito Lake Road. He had lived there since he was a baby. Steve Kroschel has permits for this sort of thing. He named him Duck Moses, after his savior, Duck...
Happy New Year
“I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms.” – Wendell Berry New Year’s Eve 2023, Sunday, Noon,...
The Second to Last Day of the Year
"For when we begin looking-- and I mean really looking, with an attention cleared of formulations and preconceptions-- we begin to see combinations and possibilities, order and beauty, anywhere." John Haines Dec. 30, Saturday morning,9:45 am on the Chilkat. Low tide....
Dec 29 Light is Particle & Wave
“Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time.” – Terry Pratchett Dec. 29 2:45...