Dec 23 Advent Love in a Picture
For the mind can build itself a home, but only the heart can live in it– Mark Nepo, from his poem, Art Lesson It has been a very busy day so I’m afraid I’ll be brief — the family has descended from far and near ( well, Juneau, and Young and...
Advent Thought(s) Dec. 22. Cheers to Community
“All along the echoes sing the same delight.” — Susan Cooper, in her poem, “The Shortest Day”. It is getting down to the Christmas wire. The radio station is playing all the grumpy Christmas songs. To be fair to KHNS, community radio for...
Advent Thoughts Dec. 21, Winter Solstice.
It is the darkest day of the year, and in church we light the Advent candle for Love. I am feeling so much love. Just not the kind I want to, right now. As my granddaughter says, I have a lot of feelings. They say you can balance an egg upright on the equinox. If I...
Advent Dec 20 ( A Light Story)
The day is young, and windy and cold, and it’s already getting behind me, and while Heather Cox Richardson says “Let’s a take a night off” and posts a photo of Maine, I ‘m no Heather Cox Richardson. Anne Lamott makes me happy...
Advent Thought (s) Dec. 19 Celebrate the Shadows
I walked today almost alone,– just the dogs and me– in circles, with my back to the wind down on the beach, and then into the wind in protected woods. I did this for an hour in between work or chores or choices or whatever it is I do all day–...Donate and Support
