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Advent Thought(s) for Dec. 9 (Sometimes it’s all Good)
“Sometimes things don’t go, after all, From bad to worse.” – Sheenagh Pugh The ferry docked close to midnight after a ride that could have been worse, considering the northerly gusts to 65 knots, heavy freezing spray and seas to twelve feet. I took Dramamine...
Thanksgiving
"Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going"-- Mary Oliver November 23, 10:15 am, 35 degrees, gusty south winds, cloudy, slush and sand. Beth and I squeezed in a walk even though we both said we didn't have time. Turkeys, tidying, pies,...
Nov 22 Home!
The truth is that it's just really hard for me to sleep without a dog in my bedroom.- Jimmy Stewart Haines, where the Chilkat River meets the sea in my backyard. 2:00 pm, 37 degrees, low tide. Snow and slush. High clouds and a south wind. It's been a long travel and...
Nov 21 in Rainy Juneau
It is the onion, memory, that makes me cry-- Craig Raine 2:00 pm, Juneau, Twin Lakes, 37 degrees, light rain, south wind with gusts up to 25 mph. The snow has turned to slush. I did not walk this morning since Chip came in on the Hoonah ferry last night about...
Nov 20, Juneau Snowstorm
I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.- Dylan Thomas (A Child's Christmas in Wales) 10:15am Monday, November 20, Juneau. Snowing, 24 degrees, light...
Sunday Nov. 19 Tenakee and Juneau
Winter solitude— In a world of one color The sound of wind.-- Basho Tenakee Springs, about 11 am, 30 degrees, east wind, cloudy with flurries. A big snowstorm is coming our way. There was ice on the puddles and frost on all the decks this morning, including the float...
Nov 18 Tenakee Springs
If we could communicate with animals, ask them questions and receive answers—no matter how simple those questions and answers turn out to be—the world might soon be moved enough to at least start halting our runaway destruction of life.—Roger Payne Saturday, Tenakee...