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.
Margaret River is both a region and a bustling market town famed for its wine, incredible surfing, gorgeous coastline, multi-chambered caves and mysterious karri (eucalyptus) forests. – Trip Advisor I walked on one beach and packed for another. Haines today: 15...
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien A cold snowy day, filled with packing and errands and lists. The Christmas tree is out behind the wood shed, the decorations are in the box in Chip’s...
“The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is...
“Don’t give up on truth and beauty and justice, no matter the headlines, no matter how dire things seem. The light always returns—always always always.”- Anne Lamott It is the Feast of the Epiphany for those of you that follow these things. The day the...
“I also learned this year that my delight grows—much like love and joy—when I share it.”- Ross Gay, The Book of Delights Jan 6, Saturday, noon. Sunny, cold (19 degrees), light north wind. Ebbing tide. The sun pulls on we Alaskans, practically cave...
The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact. Every decayed stump and moss-grown stone and rail, and the dead leaves of autumn, are concealed by a clean napkin of snow. In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the...
