for MJ and Marvin Most of us know what the pit in the stomach of loss feels like. It is a feeling we all want to avoid but, in this life, being mortal, it is unavoidable. The other night, talking with a friend from Soldotna, Alaska, I said I realized that the shit was hitting …
Once upon a time there was a farmer, he had a prize stallion, which was worth almost as much as all of his farm. One night there was a fearsome storm, and, in the morning, he woke to find the stallion gone. His well-meaning neighbors came by to console him. They said, “We are so …
I am sitting at the edge of an Alpine meadow, reading Richard Dawkins on God, or rather the delusion of God. I have always considered myself a believer in some sort of higher power, although since age nine, my belief strayed from the Episcopal Church I was baptized into. A disagreement with the Sunday school …
A little over four and a half years ago I was on a land hunt. It had been over ten years since I had lived on my own property. I knew I wanted wild land, and I was in the right place I thought to buy it. I lived on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska …
Let’s just say I am no Pollyanna. Starting with ‘duck and cover’ as a third grader, I have known the world can be dangerous on a regular basis. Then there was Covid-19 putting a target on me and now the protests that wrack the country I live in. But some dim awareness occurred as I …
About two months ago I woke up. Not like the Buddha, who is famous for being awake but like me. I woke up to the shimmering light of this life. It took being aware that I might die to do this. I still might die. The virus lurks waiting to catch anyone unaware. Where I …