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My family and I are heading out to our little piece of paradise on Kodiak Island, far from the distractions of civilization. It'll be good to check in with the neighbors and see what they've been up to: the vixen and her yearly crop of kits, the occasional brown bear, the pair of bald eagles who raise chicklets there, the otter family that frolics along the beach, the harbor seal, Constance, who is our constant companion in the bay as we walk the beaches, the kingfisher that hunts in our cove, the kittiwakes who arrive at every tide at the mouth of our river to bath and chatter... I may be missing a few friends... Oh! The Sitka deer who slip silently through the edges of the camp, the little birds who twitter in the beach grass, the salmon returning from the sea to crowd our river...
Y'all can have the nightly (fake) news. I'm so ready for a break from it all.
S.
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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. - Henry David Thoreau.
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