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Sunday’s Thought ( A Shabbat Prayer)
Well, it’s been a rough day for my religion. Christians are wearing me out. What happened to love everyone (everyone) the same way you love yourself? What happened to the Golden Rule? So, this Sunday’s Thought is from one of my very favorite traditions, the Reformed...
Summertime
And the living is easy-- well, at least compared to everywhere else. I took this picture on our way back from a morning bike ride to Chilkoot. Chip was tired so he didn't mind. It's been hot and busy. (There is a red flag wildfire danger warning through tomorrow...
Sunday’s Thought
“There are no words, not in English, Spanish, Arabic, or Hebrew, that have been invented to explain what it’s like to lose a child. The nightmarish heartache of it. The unexplainable trepidation that follows... The child may be gone, but the years the child...
Homer, Home and Henry
Yesterday I opened a crate of stuff I'd shipped from Dad's farm to Haines. It has been in the barn at our lumberyard for two weeks, since it arrived just as I headed off to Homer for a week at The Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. I was inspired by Toni Jensen,...
A Time to Keep
Welcome Henry! Our tenth grandchild was born Saturday, and he, along with my daughter JJ, her husband Bryan and big sister Emilia are doing just grand. It's been a quiet time, this waiting, and wondering and all the little worries that come with childbirth-- and then...
Sunday’s Thought
I'm home, after cleaning out my parents' old house on the farm they loved, and saying goodbye to all of it. Yes, it's a lot. I promised myself I wouldn't take too much stuff, that I'd be good about tossing, weeding, giving it away. Then I filled an old steamer truck...
In the Midst of Life
I was cleaning up the house and folding laundry I'd tossed on the bed in Papa Bob's room because some of the grandchildren were coming over (it is spring break)-- when the phone rang and my friend Don asked for the measurements of the cardboard mailer Dad's ashes were...