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Advent Thought(s) Dec 11– One Person at a Time
“Perhaps knowing that you are enough for one person goes a long way.” – In Fredrik Backman’s new novel, My Friends. (He also wrote A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked me to Tell You She’s Sorry-- and more.) I did not want to go out into the cold gale of a night,...
Dec. 5: It Could Be Worse.
"Bad weather always looks worse through a window"- Tom Leher 10 am on the Chilkat. 36 degrees. Rainy with a stiff south wind on top of fresh snow. Enough beach to walk on below the snow. "It could be worse," I said, laughing as we ducked into the wind. It felt like we...
Dec 4 Morning Walk
"Walking in a winter wonderland..." Well, not exactly. Monday Dec 4 on the Chilkat. 8:35 am. Dark-ish. 31 degrees.There's a small craft advisory for north winds to 25 knots, the tide is high, but not that high we had a strip pf wet beach to walk on-- snowing kind of...
Dec. 3 The First Sunday in Advent
Sunday's thought from Howard Zinn: “TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this...
Dec 2, a Holy Kind of Day in Haines
"Before you know what kindness really is, you must lose things." -Naomi Nye, from her poem, "Kindness". Dec. 2, 2:30 pm at Picture Point, visiting the memorial to Janae and David, overlooking the Dec. 2, 2020 landslide that killed them and changed our town forever....
Dec. 1 Chilkat River Snow
"Now, the first of December was covered with snow So was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston Though the Berkshires seemed dreamlike on account of that frostin' With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go..." James Taylor 10:45 am, December 1, Friday....
Cherishing the Chilkat on the last day of November
We love the way we live here. It's not an easy life, but it's a good life.- Lani Hotch It's simple for me. Because this is where I live. If you're not going to fight for that, what are you going to stand up for? - J.R. Churchill 8:40 am, snowing lightly, light...