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Sunday’s Thoughts
Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually. - Issa AND He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. - Psalm 25 I am being paid back for all of my socializing last weekend with a cold. It's not Covid ( I have taken 2 tests), just...
Some News About Grief
I have been helping a little ( a very little, Beth does it all, I think) with the Hospice of Haines newsletter, and reviewed an article in the January 24th Time magazine by Ruth Davis Konigsberg whose new book The Truth About Grief (Simon & Schuster, 2011) debunks...
Keep Your Chin Up
I don't think you could have fit another person in the school last night for the Haines People for Peace Japan disaster relief fundraiser - billed as a modest Japanese dinner with immodest desserts- (available through an auction). The meal, a traditional chicken and...
Next Winter’s Firewood Arrives
Yesterday next winter's firewood arrived. Like the photo essay on waiting for coffee, here is another celebrating shopping locally, and why it's important. I'll try to do these sort of regularly. The easiest way for each of us to keep Haines "ecosystem" healthy and...
A Not so Quiet Week
Well, the Merchants lost, 101-84 against Angoon, but Tyler Healy, Andrew Friske and Jesse McGraw made the all-tourney team and just playing in the championship game at Gold Medal is a big deal. Also, I talked to Ralph last night and a memorial service for Ellen...
A Spring Postcard
Sunday’s Thought
From Emily Dickinson's poem #1176: We'll never know how high we are Till we are asked to rise And then if we are true to plan Our statures touch the skies--