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Rain and Rainbows
The wind is still blowing but the rain let up, and the sky has bright moments. The light in late September is beautiful when it shines through the gray. We three friends walked my two dogs and talked about the summer, how it went, was it good? Yes of course, except...
Sunday’s Thought
John Straley writes that "Winter hardens us. These are its terms. It does not manifest its own hardness inside us, but stiffens the stuff we are already made of." I suppose you can take that two ways, hard like iron or death, or as I prefer, like the hardening off of...
Seeing and Believing.
On our daily walks with the dogs my friend and I talk about all kinds of things-- politics to be sure, and the weather, and life and death (she is a hospice administrator and I write obits) and mindfulness and drinking wine ( we did some fasting for four weeks) and...
Sunday’s Thoughts
“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches “Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God...
What to do with Winter
Winter after the holidays, January thru March, is real winter, and also the best time to get sick, so the timing was right for my wicked sore throat and cold. I gave myself the prescription Doc Feldman would have- bed rest. He is retired and lives down south now, in...
Mary and Me
When I heard that Mary Oliver died my first thought was "Who will be that voice in my life now?" and the second was "Only 83?" We begin every writing day together: Me and a million other writers, I'm sure. I'm now so grateful Mary existed when she did and I found her...
Epiphanies
I went to Juneau for Epiphany ( Sunday January 5 we celebrate the arrival of the three wise men or Magi who followed the star to Bethlehem), and stayed on vacation for another week. On Epiphany at our church in Haines we have a little party with a cake, which has an...