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Jennifer Searls

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May 31, 2021

Ordinary Grace – William Kent Krueger

Grief, hope, Reading

When we feel abandoned, alone, and lost, what’s left to us? What do I have, what do you have, what do any of us have left except the overpowering temptation to rail against God and to blame him for the dark night into which he’s led us, to blame him for our misery, to blame …

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March 28, 2020

Walking With The Wild Things

hope, Window Thinking

Moose wander our neighborhood more often during these long, warming days. Every time we let the dog out to the backyard we have to first do a visual moose check because sometimes ….. It’s always a quirky surprise to look up and see these seeming gentle giants meander along sidewalks and across backyards, munching our shrubs and …

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March 26, 2020

Living in the Age of COVID-19

Alaska, Grief, hope

The HunkerDown AnchorTown Patrol makes unannounced rounds and we are glad to report tonight – we were home and our hands were clean! Our helpers need us to PLEASE STAY HOME.

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March 23, 2020

take me to the river

Grief, hope, prayer, Window Thinking

I logged onto Facebook several times today, intending to post about the COVID-19 POUNDS that I fear are a very real risk associated with the current Work From Home HUNKER DOWN policy in Anchorage. I mean!!! We’ve got Ethan managing our lunch room!!! #realsideffects I never actually wrote the post though because there was something …

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March 14, 2020

living into the light

Alaska, beauty, hope, Seasons, Window Thinking

We’ve come through another dark winter here in Anchorage and light is returning  at a rate of nearly 6 additional minutes/day. This picture is from my walk at 8:30p, just after sunset last night.  Deep winter dark is behind us now and the 24/7 light is coming at us fast. I’ve lived the dramatic dark/light/dark/light …

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