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Water Mask (The Alaska Literary Series)
An adventurous memoir that reflects on family, place, memory, work, perception and culture...in a land that both beguiles and rejects."
Impermanence, or Memoir Note #2
Nothing changes. The bones of the mammoth are still in the earth. -Adrienne Rich As I was reaching for the sweet potatoes this evening at dinner, I glimpsed my hand ...
Read More Apprenticeships…or Life Swaps?
Over 500 years ago, Leonardo daVinci spent six years of his life as an apprentice to Veracchio who was an experienced sculptor, painter and goldsmith. Veracchio had many students whose ...
Read More Romancing the Ski Train
When I was a kid growing up in a small Michigan farming community, I used to love the sound of the train running through town. You could hear the whistle ...
Read More A Love Letter to Rivers Everywhere
The image of the river has assumed a sacred and spiritual effect to many cultures throughout time, from the Euphrates in the story of Adam and Eve, to the ...
Read More Silence Spoken Here
I read a fascinating article recently by Gordon Hempton, an "acoustic ecologist" who for the past 25 years, has studied and recorded the vanishing sounds of nature. He says there ...
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