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Water Mask (The Alaska Literary Series)
In Water Mask, Monica Devine skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates sea ice with Beaufort Sea whalers and whirls two thousand feet above the tundra with a rookie bush pilot. She negotiates the death of her father, and the near loss of her family's cabin on the Copper River. Reflections on family, place, memory, work, perception and art are woven into a seductive tapestry...in a land that both beguiles and rejects.
The Path Comes to an End
This is all there is. The path comes to an end among the parsley -alan watts IF I were to encapsulate the writings of Alan Watts, a teacher of ...
Read More The Curse of Womanhood
In love with the earth and sky There I was in 6th grade Science class, 12 years old, standing in the middle of the room, twirling a sling psychrometer above ...
Read More Nature As Art; Art As Nature
A moment of revelation, nature as art. Rock, root, water, my skimming impressions engage with what is real, and I imagine another layer, unreal. To smell water, verdant and flush ...
Read More The First Moment of Surprise
The weather report was not inviting: rain filled clouds, low lying fog. So easy to change our plans due to weather, say "no" to the day, leave the raincoats hanging ...
Read More I Woke Up Crying
There were tears in my eyes this morning, and a vague feeling of something off kilter; a feeling of being hurt and upset yet I could not remember an accompanying ...
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