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Happy Birthday, Dear Life
“I could complain a little right here about the long years of back pain and occasional awful, heartbreak, but Lord, those were infinitesimal against the slather of gifts You gave mere me, a muddle of a man.” -Brian Doyle Henry, three, sent Chip a birthday video...
Much Love & Hope
My cousin and I were corresponding about Papa Bob, and life and death and probate, and he signed the email, "Much Love and Hope" -- which pretty sums it up doesn't it? The only things that are going to carry us through winter, Covid, crazy politics, the only things...
Sunday’s Thought
"The world is already split open, and it is our destiny to heal it, each in our own way, each in our own time, with the gifts that are ours." Terry Tempest Williams
Sunday’s Thought
"Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-- smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all- do it for peace. " Mother Teresa
Rain, Time and Love
I have always been terrible with titles, and so I know this one isn't very clever but I have never let that stop me. I used to write columns for the Anchorage Daily News and Woman's Day and the editors always picked the titles so I never had to think about them. I...
Monday Moon and those Booms.
Usually when I drive to the pool at 5:50 everyone on my road is still asleep. The windows are dark, well, except for the holiday strings that hopefully will stay on until the daylight catches up with the darkness. We will pass 7 hours today for the first time. There...
Sunday’s Thought
“Sensitivity to the mystery of living is the essence of human dignity. It is the soil in which our consciousness has its roots, and out of which a sense of meaning is derived. Man does not live by explanations alone, but by the sense of wonder and mystery.”-- Rabbi...