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.
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,...
We love the way we live here. It’s not an easy life, but it’s a good life.- Lani Hotch It’s simple for me. Because this is where I live. If you’re not going to fight for that, what are you going to stand up for? – J.R. Churchill 8:40 am,...
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.- Leo Tolstoy Weds. Nov 29, 9 am, 30 degrees, blue sky with thin clouds, low tide, light north wind. Frosty on the grass and uplands. Firm sand to walk on. Sunrise was at 8:27,...
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams...
