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.
From NPR this morning, about Norman Lear’s belief that there are two types of humans, wet and dry: “Dry people were calm, cool, unruffled. Wet people were emotional, and impulsive, and things get to them.” December 6, weds. On the Chilkat. 10 am, 42...
“Bad weather always looks worse through a window”- Tom Leher 10 am on the Chilkat. 36 degrees. Rainy with a stiff south wind on top of fresh snow. Enough beach to walk on below the snow. “It could be worse,” I said, laughing as we ducked into...
“Walking in a winter wonderland…” Well, not exactly. Monday Dec 4 on the Chilkat. 8:35 am. Dark-ish. 31 degrees.There’s a small craft advisory for north winds to 25 knots, the tide is high, but not that high we had a strip pf wet beach to...
Sunday’s thought from Howard Zinn: “TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this...
“Before you know what kindness really is, you must lose things.” -Naomi Nye, from her poem, “Kindness”. Dec. 2, 2:30 pm at Picture Point, visiting the memorial to Janae and David, overlooking the Dec. 2, 2020 landslide that killed them and...
“Now, the first of December was covered with snow So was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston Though the Berkshires seemed dreamlike on account of that frostin’ With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go…” James Taylor 10:45 am,...
