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December is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful…
Which makes no sense, but is a riff on a Jimmy Buffet tune, and he is one of my favorites thanks to a college roommate from Florida who brought his albums to our Vermont dorm room in 1981.The line comes from popular The Weather is Beautiful, Wish You Were Here style...
Spring Break, Alaska Style.
Happy first day of Spring! We now have as much daylight as Mexico, and gaining, and when the sun shines, the wind stops blowing, it's warm enough to ski in shirt sleeves, and your friends are singing happy songs on the "snowfa," why would you want to be anywhere else?...
Sunday’s Thought: a Buddhist Gatha
In, Out, Deep, Slow, Calm, Ease, Smile, Release, Present moment, Wonderful moment. Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh recommends using this gatha, or meditative prayer, when walking, by matching the steps with the words and our controled breathing. He says that when we...
Spring break in Mexico?
Spring break begins this afternoon at 2pm. And it is snowing, again. (In choir last night we learned that we are just three inches from 30 feet.) "It's not powdered sugar," JJ said this morning watching the snow fall. "I want to get on the ferry and go to Mexico."...
It gets worse
The young man who was injured in the avalanche that took the life of his guide has died. He was 26 years old and his friends say the Californian was a real nice kid who smiled often. It was hard to listen to his skiing buddy talking about the event on the radio this...
Dark news on a bright day
Everyone in town was talking about the accident yesterday, an avalanche that killed a 35-year-old Colorado heli-ski guide and badly injured a client, apparently, although news on the survivor is still sketchy, according to Trooper Josh on the KHNS radio news. It was...
e-reader pros and cons
Algonquin Books, my wonderful publisher (I mean that, they are great) has just jumped into the ebook world. I have mixed feelings about this, as I am a real book person. I love holding them, looking at them, moving the piles of them all around my house. At Christmas...