Tag: Inspiration
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It’s Not About You
“It’s Not About You”, the first four words in Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life were humbly manifested to me at a gas station yesterday. Next up in queue for ‘bargain’ $3.62/gal. gas, an elderly woman exited the car in front of me. Appearing somewhat disheveled, she began sorting through her purse, finally finding her…
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Elvis, Romeo and Me
The thermometer registered at 28 this morning as I scraped ice off the car’s windshield and gathered an armload of wood to stoke the wood-stove. Outside the wilderness has replaced its forest greens with golden-orange hues as summer exits and fall arrives. Once again its time to bid adieu to the Last Frontier and…
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Anti-aging AI Inhibitors
This past weekend my wife, son and I visited longtime friends who live and run a 5* resort (denalilakeviewinn.com) on Otto Lake at Denali National Park’s spectacular doorstep. Unfortunately overcast, drizzly conditions excluded us from Denali’s (some call it Mt. McKinnley) 30 % Club … only 30% of Park visitors actually get to see a…
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Beauty for Ashes
In 2019 the Swan Lake fire devastated over 170,000 acres of Kenai Peninsula pristine forest. This past weekend my wife and I drove through that area on our way to visit friends … Nature’s restorative power amazed us! What was a barren landscape of charred, skeletal trees and smoldering ashes just seven years ago, now…
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Uncertainty Therapy
The Last Frontier summer is rapidly fading into fall, and this aging ragamuffin’s fall season of life has already experienced winter’s first snows. Uncertainty is a certainty of life. Lately, life’s uncertainties have been edging into my ponderings. A comforting quote I recently heard helps mitigate the ‘worry’ of uncertainty … “Write your plans…
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Cycle of Life
Yesterday we awoke to 2026’s first summer/fall transition snowfall … after all … it is August here in the Last Frontier A short road trip to Hatcher Pass was in order. Here’s a few summer/fall transition snowfall scenes that delighted our eyes with wonder. While Ellie chose to stay in the car, I took off…
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Rainbow Promise Prints
A woods wander, interspersed with sunshine and rain, was graced with my Creator’s celestial watercolors. “Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and a rainbow occurs in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy…
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Dolly’s Legacy
Along with countless others, my wife and are grieving Dolly’s passing, only eased by knowing someday we will be forever reunited. Ellen and I are blessed to be able to snowbird between two awesome corners of Creation … the vast Greatland of Alaska, and the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains of TN. Our TN home is…
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Seeing God
Recently the sun has taken a hiatus behind the clouds, and Ellie and I took a short ride up the road for dinner. The food was scrumptious, but the cloudy day mountain vistas catered a celestial feast for the eyes no earthly menu could ever describe or serve up. The Good Book tells us, “No…
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Silent Soul Stirrings
Deep early morning’s shadows draping the river valley, and mystical mountain mists silently stirred tranquility in my soul. A hen turkey suddenly peering in the kitchen window silently stirred a smile in my soul, and “The mountains are calling and I must go” yearning … so I went … up the trail to Castle Mt.…
