if we are to survive successfully, we must be crueler than we are inclined to be, but also retain more kindness than cruelty teaches us to practice.
The Attic of Memory and Dream
Sometimes I don’t recognize America. Sometimes I feel lost, as though I put my foot on the doorstep and got wooshed off on an adventure that took me too far from home…
In My Mother’s Steps
At my age, my children are beginning to worry about me living “way out” on a ranch.
First Day of Fall at War Eagle Lookout
…silver ghosts of the old burned trees standing like soldiers of the remembered forest
RANCH GIRL REPORTS
Mount Mazama is where Crater Lake is. The native Shasti legend is that Shasta, the fire god warred with Mazama, threw rocks at him and Crater Lake was the result.