Sisters Festival of Books
A village lost in bookish revelry…. That’s what I did this weekend in this quirky little town we moved to the year before last. I indulged in bookish revelry with other like-minded book-lovers, in...
View ArticleBooks Can Save a Life
“When you’re in a place that is not your own among people not like you, your first impulse has to be respect. Even if you don’t understand, you have to show respect for what is technically called...
View ArticleWisdom for 2020 from an American prophet
“We can find ways to believe in survival and to live for the children….In our tribal and indigenous cultures, which have endured for thousands of years, every decision must leave no one behind....
View ArticleLate Migrations
“Every day the world is teaching me what I need to know to be in the world.” – Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. Last year I encountered two new-to-me writers who...
View ArticleOne Long River of Song
“So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end — not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not...
View ArticleHope in the Dark
“This morning was perhaps the most unnatural-feeling and unnerving of my life, with darkness rather than daytime rolling in. People around California reported that the birds that would normally be...
View ArticleBarry Lopez passing, gathering words
The role of the artist, in part, is to develop the conversations, the stories, the drawings, the films, the music—the expressions of awe and wonder and mystery—that remind us, especially in our worst...
View ArticleBarry Lopez brought us I, Snow Leopard
Photo by Tambako The Jaguar Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license “I, SNOW LEOPARD is both a lyric and an elegy. It is easy to imagine its lines being loudly hailed in whatever...
View Article(Still) reading Barry Lopez
Stories…offer patterns of sound and association, of event and image. Suspended as listeners and readers in these patterns, we might reimagine our lives…As long as it took for me to see that a writer’s...
View ArticleCabin 135: A Memoir of Alaska
TIME “During the Great Depression, the federal government created new agricultural settlements in a number of states, including Alaska. Farmers who had run out of other options applied for the chance...
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