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Riding My Bike. It’s Good (Even When It’s Not…)
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as you ever can. -Attributed to John Wesley Chip and I rode in the Kluane to Chilkat International Bike...
Advent Thought Dec.8– Holding the Light
"See how everything we have made gathers the light inside itself and overflows. A blessing.--Stuart Kestenbaum in his poem Holding the Light in The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal edited by James Crewes. The power went out in Juneau before we woke...
Advent Thought(s) for Dec 7 (& 6) Snowing Kindness
“Seeing the goodness in someone does not imply ignoring their difficult qualities or unskillful actions. Rather we can fully acknowledge these difficulties while at the same time we choose to focus on the positive.”—Sharon Salzberg in Loving Kindness And, I...
Advent Thought (s) for Dec. 5 or The Tenakee Peace Prize
Visiting the graves, The old dog Leads the way.--Issa “Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of almost everyone with whom I come into contact as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions…The...
Advent Thought (and pictures) for Dec. 4
“We are here for a little window. And to use the time to catch and share shards of light and laughter and grace seems to me the great story.” Brian Doyle, from his “Notes on Wonder” in One Long River of Song. A collection of his work published after he died. Everyone...
Dec. 3 Advent Thoughts : Give Lavish
The whole day is your gift: hold it and read a leaf at a time, never hurried, never waiting. Step, step, slide, then turn, dance on the calendar, reach out a hand, give lavish as anyone ever gave- all. – from the poem "Some Days of Its Gift" by William Stafford...
Dec. 2 Advent Thoughts (And a Poem about Goats)
“There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself, though it is always secretly there. It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility, and our hearts to love life.” --John O’Donohue (Paintings by my...