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Singers, Nesters and Friends
“Come with rain, O loud southwester!/ Bring the singer, bring the nester/” – Robert Frost, from his poem “To a Thawing Wind.” 3:30 pm, 35 degrees, stormy, small craft advisory for southerly gusts to 40 knots. Rough seas and whitecaps. Feels like snow (it is in the...
The Calm Before the Storm
This is now. And this is what is coming, in NOAA weather speak: "Winter weather advisory from 3 pm this afternoon to 6 am AKST Weds Mar 10." Reading down the lines, the storm is hardly worth a warning. 3-5 inches of snow is all, mainly between Mud Bay and Klukwan....
Let the Sunshine In
This morning I was standing in the kitchen when something made me turn just as the sun lit the mandarins on the table. The quality of light, the brightness of the color orange and the sleeping old dog felt so warm and right, and hopeful, you know? If I were a poet...
Sunday’s Thought
“The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.” ― Seamus Heaney
Lent Again
We are running toward the light this Lent, and instead of giving up stuff we are holding on to what we have. For Sarah's 36 birthday she ran a marathon (26.2 miles) in Haines. She planned someplace exotic, but we know how that goes. Still, two fun friends and her...
Wednesday’s Thought(s)
It's cold ( -1 and blowing a gale.) The wind sounds like distant thunder and the dogs don't like that, or the squeak coming from a wire or maybe a gate hinge so they woke me up at five, and I fed them and let them out, and visited with Chip while he did sit-ups in the...
Sunday’s Thought
O ye frost and cold, bless ye the Lord; O ye ice and snow, bless ye the Lord; O ye light and darkness, bless ye the Lord. - From a Song of Creation, The Book of Common Prayer