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The Best Case Scenario
Without warning thresholds can open directly before our feet. These thresholds are often shorelines to new worlds.- John O’Donohue In the fall of 2021, I visited a clairvoyant in Haines. She told me that my dream would be coming true in the new year. You...
One Way to Start the Day
I'm doing my best not to look at my phone first thing. Not to see the alerts about vaccines, Trump and Russia, Harry, the Haines PD warning about a Large Brown Bear by Deishu Drive and the Two Cow Moose with Calves in the Young Road Vicinity or an email about Papa...
Practice
Can I tell you how good it felt to have a houseful this past holiday weekend, and how I'm a little anxious about writing to you about it because I'm the Writer Laureate now and what if I make a mistake? There's a lot of pressure to at least spell correctly, and at...
After the Rain
After turning off a local Facebook thread with a shout one more time over the current leadership's insistence that places like the pool, museum and library need to make money and pay for their own way, and almost tossing the iPad out the door into the rain, there...
Sunday’s Thought
"Do you smell the fragrance of berry bushes in spring, the fragrance of summer's wet soil, the fragrance of fall sockeye becoming older in the creek? Everything on our fragrant scrap of earth knows when the time is right to make its move." - Ernestine Hayes, The Tao...
Awe and Wonder
On the radio Jerry Lee Lewis is singing "You Are My Sunshine" and Tom, the volunteer DJ just said, we have to "make our own sunshine" until that "golden orb" that's up there somewhere returns. April was so warm and sunny, that I guess May decided to make up for it....
One Thing I Know
When an old friend dies, the best thing to do is to go play with young friends, preferably very young friends, and if you are really lucky, they will be your grandchildren. Happy dogs are good for the heart too, And doughnuts. Don't forget doughnuts....