sunday afternoon
Following trails through the mountainsbeneath a great big skyI am small.
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Dear Dotties
When snow falls in piles taller than you standand spring delays,I’m sorry.
Anticipatory Hope
We watch for the day winter melts awayand we shall feast in spring green.
The weight of a Preposition
Ashes to AshesDust to Dustthis life held in a common, small word
Mountain View
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 …
how it started
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 …
How the Word is Passed – Clint Smith
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 …
another subzero day
ice rainbows, light pillars lift the fog and there’s the rime water in play
looking ahead to looking back
and I used to walk the dog in morning dark at 10 below,I’ll say.
doting on dotties
Six churr-full hens on winter holiday accept room service with thanks.
Moving again
It’s surprising, the emotional range a flat cardboard box can hold.
First Day
Fierce wind whips cold tears from my eyes as I watch daylight fade, in color.
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
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 …
Saving Us – Katharine Hayhoe
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 …
Cinderella at the ball
Circling back to a book I read last month….In the final pages of The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, author Helene Hanff includes a story that I keep thinking about. The book is an account of Hanff’s trip to London – a place she imagined and interacted with throughout her 20 year pen pal relationship with …
Scritchy Snow
It was 4F degrees when the dog and I went out for a walk this morning at 8a, still an hour before the sunrise. Before stepping out the door, I pulled on layers of warmth – these Alaska years have taught us many variations according to conditions, and it always cracks us up that as …
Turn. Turn. Turn.
Tomorrow is Ryan’s birthday which has become a marking point during our Alaska years – will we get our Anchorage winter snow pack started by his birthday? This year, it seems we have. (and right on schedule) Most afternoons lately I have been hanging out with our chickens – ever since a hawk swooped down …
October Beats
A mellow sun hangs low this afternoon and autumn is fading out. (I took this photo on the 18th, but I got distracted while looking for 17 beats. Thus, the delay in posting.)