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A Heart for San Francisco
“When you are in a world where people are not behaving like human beings, strive to be a human being.” Rabbi Sydney Mintz, sharing an old Jewish saying on Yom Kippur. I am still thinking about our spur of the moment, whirlwind Yom Kippur trip to San...
Sunday’s Thought
“Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.” — Joan D. Chittister
Thanks, Praise and Putzing Around
It is amazing to me how a very healthy person can be slayed by the tiniest of bacteria-- and how I went from hale and hearty to sleepy and weepy so fast. It helps me feel for the Covid long haulers, although what I had was not Covid, it still lingered long past its...
Sunday’s Thought
For you today, some comforting and wise words from CMarie Fuhrman, the current Idaho Writer in Residence and co-editor of Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft and Conversations. CMarie Furham, whom I am grateful to have met last summer in Homer at the...
Season’s Greetings
The last cruise ship of the season is here. So is the first day full day of Fall, and also right on time: white frosting on the high peaks and ridges-- I don't like to call it termination dust, since the first snow on the mountains feels as much like a beginning as an...
Of Bears and Berries
Last night the sow and cubs were back in the mountain ash trees. Chip shined the flashlight out the bedroom window, clapped and told them to "git." The dogs growled and barked (from safe inside the house) and the bears loped off and we sort of fell back asleep. At...
Change in the Weather
I love weather, which is a good thing, since we have a lot of it, and this week it seems even more than usual. I postpone the daily walk when it is raining sideways at 9 because it may be (and is!) glorious a few hours later and my friend Teresa is ready and so are...