between two types of music is denali, skein of mountains beneath stars brighter than the whispering lights of Anchorage and Fairbanks with the wind and the mountains drowning the world away into clean lines of stillness. a place to return to ... stop and breathe when you feel like your drowning and need to touch the cold again.
In October at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention up in Fairbanks, several inches of snow on the ground with the wind and the latitude making it taste like winter ... I could feel in myself and the community of people drifting in and out of the Carlson Center the walls that we face collectively and individually as we look to the future.
Tonight I remembered this article www.adn.com/2010/07/26/.../village-leader-pleads-for-state.html ... and it pushed me in a good way to remember that we need to get things done here, we need to make things happen. There will be another great chance to learn about opportunities and plans for this Adventure Service work end of November during 350 satellite art...
Check out Gloria O'Neils speech from the convention for some inspiring words about working together to build a better world.
