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One if By Air, Two if By Sea and Off to Boston We Will Be?
“If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy,” Amby Burfoot I apologize for not being more present here for all kinds of not very good reasons. It's just life--full, good and busy days. I have also been in and out more than usual and now am...
Time for a Vacation
I'm off to a warm beach. With my daughter and two grandchildren. (Someone has to babysit.) I will be back in about ten days with a full report and pictures.In the meantime, there is a lot to keep you glowing here in Haines. Well, sort of. "Frozen in Time" is the...
Sunday’s Thought
"Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest prize of all. Do you want this, or do you want to be right?" - Anne Lamott
There’s A Lot Going On
Community doesn't happen by magic, or wishing it so, it takes people to set up the chairs at the meeting and put them away again, bake something for the auction or the potluck, to sing and dance and turn on the lights and show up on time, from yoga class to burger...
Blame it on the Moon
If the weather cooperates (which it hasn't exactly been all winter) we may see the super-blue-black moon tomorrow morning. The eclipse begins at 2:45 am or so and ends at 7. The peak is around 4:30. Too bad it wasn't last week, during the tsunami warning kerfuffle...
Sunday’s Thought on Monday?
"Let us be joyful agents of change, full of the energy of the Spirit. Now is the moment to make change happen. Now is the moment God always intended us to inhabit."- Bishop Steve Charleston, Climbing Stairs of Sunlight It's all very quiet here this morning. I'm...
After a Tsunami Alarm, All’s Well.
So what do you take when the radio announcer- my friend Margaret- says there is a tsunami warning and the police want everyone to get to higher ground-- above 100 feet- NOW? The dogs,my wallet, and phone. Oh, and the head lamp from the hook by the door. It was 2:30...