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Sunday’s Thought(s)
From Ross Gay: " Sharon Salzberg said something like ' despair is sureness.' When you feel despair, you know what's gonna happen. My intention is to feel curiosity. I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel despair...but my intention and my practice is to feel...
Sunday’s Thought
"I believe that life is an extraordinary gift, a blink of bright light between vast darknesses. I believe that the fingerprints of the Maker are everywhere : children, hawks, water." - Brian Doyle from Leaping: Revelations and Epiphanies
Epiphanies
Just about as soon as the Christmas Day party was cleaned up, we headed to Juneau to see the kids there, and my daughter Eliza, her dog Jeff, and the redheads came back to Haines with us, so we made sure we took a photo with all the grandchildren in it: Trouble is it...
A Little Christmas Cheer
I am up early, and it's dark, and I was emailing a friend and sending her some photos, and I realized I should send some to you too-- as a thank you. Yesterday by lunchtime I survived about a foot of fresh snow, a power outage while at the pool just as I was finishing...
Sunday’s Thought
On snow from Frederick Buechner: "It is snow to be shoveled; to make driving even worse than usual, snow to be joked about and cursed at, unless the child in you is entirely dead, it is snow too that can make the heart beat faster...it is snow that can awaken memories...
A Little Love and Light
Last night (well, afternoon in most places) at four the "bookies" as we call our book club, met at my house as snow was gently falling to discuss Ann Patchett's The Dutch House, which everyone loved (almost, one of us was not as sure) but then she started speaking...
Sunday’s Thought
“If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” ― Madeleine L'Engle