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Leave the Light On: A Tenakee Dispatch
If I were young again, I'd pay attention to that little-known dimension, a taste of endless time. It's just like water- it runs right though your fingers.-- Chris Smithers from his song, "Leave the Light On" The power has been out a lot recently. It’s not the same at...
Tuesday’s Thought
I meant to resume my Sunday Thought's feature this week, but two of my granddaughters spent the night, and we became way too involved in playing outside in the spring snow and sunshine, and with our typewriters inside, and Betty's cat took more time to take to the vet...
Roots and Songs
Poet John Haines (and no Haines is not named after him, but that would be something, wouldn't it? An Alaskan town named after an Alaskan poet) wrote, "Good poems come from roots." So do good lives. I have been reading poems and essays in the morning instead of looking...
Happy Tuesday
Happy Tuesday, as my friend Dr. Marnie would say. I am on the self-improvement plan to prepare my heart and head (and I suppose body too) for the coming six weeks or so of final edits on my new book (or at least I hope they will be final...) I did the January no wine...
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...