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How to Help Alaskans Right Now
The best way to help the thousands displaced and suffering because of the recent storms in Western Alaska-- which is a long way from Haines, too-- is right here: through the Alaska Community Foundation's special relief fund . This same foundation helped Haines when we...
Tenakee Dreaming
It is one of those things that I figure was meant to be. There was this shack with an orange For Sale by Owner sign that remained un-sold on each visit to Tenakee the last few years, and then there was an unexpected windfall, and before I knew it, I had a little place...
Sunday’s Thought
"All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice." - Joy Harjo I read this just now in Reconciliation, A Prayer from How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2002 and knew that it is a perfect Sunday Thought for these times. While I was pulling up...
Sunday’s Thought
"There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun."-- Thomas Merton
Under the Weather? Sort Of.
My foot hurts. Maybe my ankle is sprained. I have been working hard this week, perhaps a little too hard? ( And walking and swimming and riding a bike when it is not raining)-- I am wondering what we were thinking fixing up the old garage next door and turning into a...
Sunday’s Thought
“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.” ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
I Hope Little League Isn’t Rained Out
Little League is almost over, and my last umpire shift is tonight, since I’m off to Anchorage for an author event Friday at UAA and will miss the final game. Of course I read the news about shots fired at a field full of kids in the Lower 48. I am trying not to think...