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Stayin’ Alive
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes. ― Fred Rogers I read the news and...
The First of December is Covered with Rain
...And full of prayers in tatters in the wind. So many. O Mother Mary pray for us now and in the hour of our need. An atmospheric river of rain is predicted. 10 inches of rain. A blizzard of rain. And the wind took out the power twice already. Once when we were...
An Advent Walk
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize..." ― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle...
Gratitude
Gratitude is different than thanks, don't you think? It's deeper, like a base layer in the language of appreciation. It’s been snowing and snowing now for most of November. As Chip said today looking out at the heavy flakes falling like mittens as my friend Becky...
Love Letters
My dad spent the night at my sister's last night, because they we sort of snowed in with the sudden snow squall after dinner and it seemed best not to drive down the hill to our house. Chip has gone deer hunting for a few weeks, and had left on the ferry in the early...
Courage and Heart
I think today is as good as any, to remind you (and me) as my friend Becky says: to be kind, be brave, be thankful. It's the first blizzard of the year. Papa Bob is snoozing through it. So are all the children in town. It is a snow day. (It's supposed to snow and blow...
Screens Home and Away
Sunday morning was spent in a reading room Zoom with Dina Nayeri (The Ungrateful Refugee) and Celeste Ng (Little Fires Everywhere) for the Alaska Quarterly Review’s 40th anniversary benefit series. (I know. I am star struck, too.) They were funny, smart and normal....