What If Everything Were Alive?
What if everything possessed life? Not just trees and flowers and plants and animals; mammals and humans and fish. I’m talking about everything. Source Dirt. Stones. Mountains. Snow. […]
natural world
Cabin Mystery
Copper River break-up The ice has not yet gone out on the Copper River. I’ve come out to our cabin to spend time working on my writing, without distractions,
The Horse of Ten Toes
My boots are crunching on cold dry snow. I’m walking the frozen river, delighted with every curve and bend, starting from a meandering slough where overflow threatens to soak my
We are Winter People and Today is a Snow Day
3 yrs. old We walked heads down into the icy wind, my brothers and I, across a mile of a barren wheat field under a lead gray sky. The expanse
Stepping Out and Dr. Zhivago
Stepping out and walking up the hill over ice-crusted snow and through the blessed darkness, Colored tree lights shine and blur the edges of
Cabin Notes #1
This morning a half moon hangs in the sky. I take my walk along the river at around 10 am, when the sun breaches the horizon. The river is consumed
Memoir Excerpt #3: When Mountains Agitate the Wind
Flying 2,000 feet above the tundra on a partly cloudy day, the slant of the sun breaks across my face, and the proximity to the earth below is tangible and
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Delicious autumn!
“My very soul is wedded to it. If I were a bird, I would fly about the earth, seeking the successive autumns.” Every year when the colors change and the
Granite Bay
We motored out into Prince William Sound in our boat/landing craft, Tookah, with a couple kayaks strapped aboard. Only a hour’s drive from Anchorage, Prince William Sound is a boater’s paradise
Ravens, a poem
Ravens The sky is sharp today, Mother The trees wave wildly in the wind but there are no clouds in the sky to push around. I thought I