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Light Perpetual Shines on Pearl
" I couldn't believe that she was gone...I could feel that something huge, a tide, had washed in, and then washed out." - Anne Lamott on the death of her old dog. Yesterday we buried Pearl. We weren't home when she died in January, and it was deep winter, so the kids...
Happening in Haines
The stars are out this morning, the wind is cooler, and there is still ice underfoot but the beach sand is crunchy and frozen. Maybe the wetter days are behind us for a little while. The forecast is for cold, clear days. The winter has been a challenge, freezing one...
Teaching Children Well
With all that's in the news, and yesterday's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, I have been thinking about the ways we teach our children, accidentally and on purpose. So much of how we feel toward other races, nationalities, religions, languages-- cultures-- other...
Sunday’s Thoughts (It’s been a long week…)
"The Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a...
Happy Tuesday to You
The plan was to ferry home from Juneau Sunday or Monday. (It's a minor miracle that there were 7:00am ferries north on both mornings.) After a day with Molly and James, and my daughter and her husband which flew by, I decided to wait until Monday, and so I took...
Good News
The little dog Lily who was missing out on Chilkoot Lake was found safe and sound with much joy all around, which I take as a good omen for the first week of the year. While the rest of the country suffers from arctic weather and storms, it's mild here in the actual...
Skating Into the New Year on Thick (-ish) Ice
The cold and clear weather made for a few perfect (well, it's all relative) days of skating to close 2017. And just like the year itself, there were a few lows, but such highs that I wanted to cheer-- I mean just look at this place. A person can't help but sing the...