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Dec 14 Advent Thought(s) Where Your Heart Is
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”- Mathew 6:21 When I was earning an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska , Anchorage our first get-know-you assignment was to write about the place you loved most in all the world. The...
Dec. 8 Fresh Air and Cozy Sweaters
"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor." - Thich Nhat Hang Dec. 8, 2:30pm, Chilkat River Beach. Windy! 35 degrees. Rain, flurries, then rolling clouds. The weather this morning was so bad it was astonishing. Amazing. Epic....
Dec 7 : Let There be Light
A Poem from Mary Oliver called "Praying": "It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway...
Dec. 6 Haines: It’s a Wet (& Dry) World
From NPR this morning, about Norman Lear’s belief that there are two types of humans, wet and dry: "Dry people were calm, cool, unruffled. Wet people were emotional, and impulsive, and things get to them." December 6, weds. On the Chilkat. 10 am, 42 degrees,...
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...