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.
Last night (well, afternoon in most places) at four the “bookies” as we call our book club, met at my house as snow was gently falling to discuss Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House, which everyone loved (almost, one of us was not as sure) but then she...
“If it can be verified, we don’t need faith… Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” ― Madeleine L’Engle
It has been raining so hard and long that Noah would have had most of the Ark finished by now — but luckily we won’t need it (or at least not now) the rain finally turned to snow and the sun came out (and the stars) and it’s 22 degrees and the north...
I have been on a kind of purification jag since the end of my term on the assembly and the completion of the book. Three full weeks of housecleaning, painting, and organizing (the entire downstairs is all fresh white now) — books have been emptied from the...
“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there...
The book is done. My assembly term is over. Fall is here. Everything that kept me busy for months and months, from bicycling to writing and all those meetings — the daily schedule beginning with two hours in the saddle, watering the garden, re-habbing the dog...
