I live and write on Lingít Aaní, and gratefully acknowledge the past, present and future caretakers of this beautiful place, the Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan.

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Dec 23 Advent Love in a Picture

Dec 23 Advent Love in a Picture

For the mind can build itself a home, but only the heart can live in it-- Mark Nepo, from his poem, Art Lesson It has been a very busy day so I'm afraid I'll be brief -- the family has descended from far and near ( well, Juneau, and Young and Small Tracts roads)-- and...

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The Best Case Scenario

The Best Case Scenario

  Without warning thresholds can open directly before our feet. These thresholds are often shorelines to new worlds.- John O’Donohue   In the fall of 2021, I visited a clairvoyant in Haines. She told me that my dream would be coming true in the new year. You...

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Some Good News

Some Good News

An Alaskan- based writer wins a Pulitzer Prize! Tessa Hulls was at work making sandwiches for state lawmakers at the capital in Juneau yesterday when she heard she had won. Here is the story from the Beacon. Her book Feeding Ghosts is a graphic memoir about three...

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Sunday’s Thought(s)

Sunday’s Thought(s)

“But a sober look at our world shows that the degree of human intervention, often in the service of business interests and consumerism, is actually making our earth less rich and beautiful, ever more limited and grey, even as technological advances and consumer goods...

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Cops and Rabbits

Cops and Rabbits

"There is joy in all"--  from Welcome Morning, a poem by Anne Sexton. First let's get our bearings: 6:10 am. Light.  It's raining, lightly, not much wind, the buds are greening, so is the seaweed and the grass. The tide is out and the river flats are full of ducks,...

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Telephone Tuesday. Make a Call (or Three)

Telephone Tuesday. Make a Call (or Three)

“The entire edifice of American justice is built on the conviction that there is no guilt without proof beyond reasonable doubt — and that there is no unimportant person, at least not in the eyes of the law.” – Bret Stephens Lisa Murkowski  202-224-6665, Dan Sullivan...

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Singers, Nesters and Friends

Singers, Nesters and Friends

“Come with rain, O loud southwester!/ Bring the singer, bring the nester/” – Robert Frost, from his poem “To a Thawing Wind.” 3:30 pm, 35 degrees, stormy, small craft advisory for  southerly gusts to 40 knots. Rough seas and whitecaps. Feels like snow (it is in the...

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