Oct 31, 2016 | Blog
First, some news. If you haven’t heard, there will be a special Haines Borough Assembly meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) in assembly chambers at 3pm to consider this resolution asking for a community wide vote on the chosen harbor expansion plan. Please come if you are...Oct 30, 2016 | Blog
A healthy society is one “in which people who orient around religion differently can disagree on some fundamental things and work together on other fundamental things…how do you have a society in which people who disagree on where to draw the line in the...Oct 27, 2016 | Blog
I have been thinking about this line I shared with you from Garrison Keillor a few months back– and how it resonates so well with both local and national politics right now: “Anger is poison. Meet hostility with courtesy. Don’t spit into the wind....Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
This morning I had a note from a reader who recalled a poem I’d shared a while ago about kindness and empathy, that she knew ended with the word “bone”, and how she needed to hear it again, but couldn’t find it, and did I know what it was? Yes....Oct 17, 2016 | Blog
Of course all anyone is talking about is the snow– about a foot at our house– and how could it have been such a surprise? My friend Leigh said she looked out the window and dropped her morning glass of water right on the floor. Even my very organized...Oct 16, 2016 | Blog
From “Angels”, a poem by Mary Oliver: “I don’t care how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. It’s enough to know that for some people they exist, and that they dance.” This weekend we celebrated two birthdays in our family,...
