Along the Spit road towards the pink sunset I walked north and westwards as the light dripped down behind dark hills winking with village night lights. About a mile I walked until the road was dark. Halfway through whiskey and cherry soda in my green nalgene, I turned back towards black mountain shadows cutting into [...]
Posts Tagged ‘alaska’
Cherry whiskey moon (draft)
Posted in poetry, tagged alaska, poetry, whiskey on August 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
An epiphany by the sea
Posted in spirituality, tagged alaska, life, meditation on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This sucks.
Next time I run off on an adventure like this, I either need to have an adequate sum of money saved up that can sustain me for a few months, or have a job with enough hours lined up before I get to said place.
Wintry Summers of the North
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alaska, homer, travel on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The stars have begun to appear again in the brief hours of darkness, burning through the thick summer fog that silences the beach and feels in the surreality of extreme low tide to surely be hiding some terrible creature…
The Summer Solstice in Alaska
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alaska, homer, travel on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Midnight, noon, dusk and dawn, these words are abandoned far to the south, replace dby long hours of sunlight broken in brief reprieve by the twilight.
June Brevitas 1.1
Posted in spirituality, travel, tagged alaska, homer on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am in Homer, Alaska. I will write a series of posts soon about the very long journey that brought me here. I am exactly where I hoped to be a year ago and am almost completely caught up with myself. The words one may use to describe the beauty of this place are but [...]
On the move
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alaska, seward, travel on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Seward said goodbye to me with a snowstorm this morning. The cab driver let me ride around with him until the “bus station” opened. (The bus station in Seward is more like a large cabin, and the bus is one of those half-sized Citibus rigs, pulling a trailer for luggage.) I am stuck on a [...]
Tiny determinations of great import
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alaska, seward on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have decided that I want to name my Kona mountain bike Firenze, after the centaur from Harry Potter. There was a tiny little field mouse sniffing around the mud room earlier today. He was tiny and fat and dark gray. Oh. Mud rooms are attached to just about every home in Seward. They are [...]
And then the sun went away
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alaska, seward, travel on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is almost 8am and it is pitch black outside. It isn’t raining for the first time in a week, and I am trying to work up the nerve to don several layers of cold and bike to work this morning. I crawled out of bed at 6:30 to find Wolf still playing video games [...]
Bits and pieces of nothing at all
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alaska, seward on October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It has started to freeze during the night. The wind feels like a wall of ice shards slamming into my body whenever I am feeling dumb enough to try to bike anywhere against the gusts. The sun has been out and painfully bright every day this week, which just confuses the issue. Being a pharmacy [...]
Rhythmically Confused Circadians
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alaska, seward on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometime late last week, as I was making my way down Nash road to the grocery store where I work, a glance up through the the break in the trees revealed the snow that had dusted the mountain peaks the night before. What only a few weeks ago was a veritable jungle behind my house [...]
