Monthly Archives: July 2010

Sitting beneath the wrong end of a bald eagle and gratitude. (Not necessarily in that order!)

Here we are. The last day of July.  The last day of a very active month.  A quiet day.  A day filled with little activities like receiving phone calls (including one with a friend to whom I haven’t talked in … Continue reading

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Sad

Kiah’s gone.  Last we heard, she’s sitting in the Minneapolis airport–flight delayed–awaiting her flight to New York City. I am home after a full day in the big city of Marquette, where I eventually hugged her goodbye at the airport.  … Continue reading

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The attack of the killer flies

So here we are in Paradise.  We drive eleven miles out on the peninsula toward Point Abbaye.  (“Are you sure we didn’t drive forty miles?” the driver asked.)  You have to drive really slow.  Twenty, thirty miles an hour.  You … Continue reading

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Splash of the kayak paddle at dusk

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Pow Wow drums & a pickle

Baraga Pow-Wow, 2010. Thirty second annual Keweenaw Bay Maawanji’iding at the Ojibwa Campground.  Theme:  Honoring our Legacy.    Kiah and I drove over Saturday afternoon.  She wanted especially to connect with a couple of friends who would be at the … Continue reading

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Beach, river, woods

Kiah wants to see everything–drink in everything–before she returns to the tall buildings and honking horns and sirens of Manhattan.  She wants to remember the smell of Lake Superior, the way the Silver River glints at dusk, the flit of … Continue reading

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The birthday blog which never ends.

We are so backed up in the blogging world.  All the way to last night.  We are still sitting at a birthday dinner opening cards and presents and hooting and carrying on.  We are still lighting candles on a homemade … Continue reading

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From frogs to sailboats to birthday dinners.

The frog–we think it’s a frog and not a toad–pauses to say hello to all of you.  Ribbit–it says.  But actually I am telling a fib.  The frog did not speak a word.  It hopped out of the garden from … Continue reading

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Getting younger every year…

I don’t know about the rest of you–but I get younger each year.  Do you? Now of course we could quibble.   Obviously, these bodies get older.  You can tell by the gray hair and wrinkles and other strange qualities which … Continue reading

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Prediction from a forest fairy

I was sitting on the deck earlier this weekend–minding my own business–when a forest fairy flew between the leaves of a nearby maple tree.  (I suppose some folks might call her a Wood Nymph.) It whispered, “Change is in the … Continue reading

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