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Jennifer Searls

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March 10, 2022

MARCH 10

17 beats

My memories marked by this day both hem me in and usher me on.

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March 9, 2022

Limping through Winter With A Smile

17 beats

Living in hard places can be okay if your people are there too.

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March 8, 2022

trailside

17 beats

Trees filled with chickadeessinging a morning songI stopped to listen

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March 7, 2022

Alaska Tips

17 beats

If your spring break plans include a picnic in the park,pack a shovel.

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March 6, 2022

sunday afternoon

17 beats

Following trails through the mountainsbeneath a great big skyI am small.

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March 5, 2022

Dear Dotties

17 beats

When snow falls in piles taller than you standand spring delays,I’m sorry.

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March 4, 2022

Anticipatory Hope

17 beats

We watch for the day winter melts awayand we shall feast in spring green.

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March 3, 2022

March

17 beats

In this, our fifth month ruled by snow and ice,lights still shine in the dark.

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March 2, 2022

The weight of a Preposition

17 beats

Ashes to AshesDust to Dustthis life held in a common, small word

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February 11, 2022

Mountain View

100WordMicro, Alaska, tinytruth

The real estate listing said the house had a mountain view, which was hard to believe from our vantage point on the street in September when daylight was fading away. We’ll buy it, we said, we like the backyard and we don’t need a mountain view, which was a gamble, but summers with chickens, gardens, and a …

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February 3, 2022

9:15PM

17 beats

out in the backyard on a february nightsnow plus moon make light

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February 2, 2022

how it started

50WordMicro, home, tinytruth

We lived in a house at the western edge of town when our boys were young and Alaska was brand new (to us). From the other side of that gate We learned how to say home. That was before we left. And then came back. Sometimes I walk by and remember. See Also: Marking 6 Months and Finding Home …

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January 9, 2022

snapshot

17 beats

I hold a warm eggOn this cold dark day In my unimagined life

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January 9, 2022

How the Word is Passed – Clint Smith

Reading

The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It is not irrelevant to our contemporary society; it created it. This history is in our soil, it is in our policies, and it must, too, be in our memories. – Clint …

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January 8, 2022

these days

17 beats

I go walking with ghosts of myself on the sidewalk of memory.

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January 7, 2022

another subzero day

17 beats

ice rainbows, light pillars  lift the fog and there’s the rime  water in play 

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January 6, 2022

looking ahead to looking back

17 beats

and I used to walk the dog in morning dark at 10 below,I’ll say.

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January 5, 2022

doting on dotties

17 beats

Six churr-full hens on winter holiday accept room service with thanks.

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January 4, 2022

warning

17 beats

old photos in a box sparks of memories may burst to flame when dumped

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January 3, 2022

Ice Rink

17 beats

Winter sun hangs low and skates across my window in the afternoon.

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January 2, 2022

Moving again

17 beats

It’s surprising, the emotional range a flat cardboard box can hold.

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January 1, 2022

First Day

17 beats

Fierce wind whips cold tears from my eyes as I watch daylight fade, in color.

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January 1, 2022

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Reading

I don’t know why or when I started my sort-of-tradition, but Ebenezer Scrooge and his ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future pretty regularly show up on my December reading lists. I’m a big fan of Jim Dale (thanks to his marvelous narration of the Harry Potter series) and I usually listen to Jim Dale …

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December 29, 2021

Saving Us – Katharine Hayhoe

Reading

I first learned of Katharine Hayhoe several years ago when I participated in the Creation Care group at the church we were attending. One of the fellow group members was excited that Hayhoe was coming to Anchorage and we would had opportunity to hear her speak. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend any of her …

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