Pink, Community, Hope

PINK. This past week has been ripe with rich and honest conversations in our family. Leadership, diversity, respect, human, courage... I suspect many of you have been exploring similar fodder. During one such chat of ours that included ideas about skin color, Indigo declared, "well if you think about it, we're all pink on the inside." Indeed.

Our favorite coffee shop in Seward, Resurrection Art (in an old church), had some foggy windows today... and a pink sunset on the mountains beyond.

COMMUNITY. Some friends and I had planned to hook up in Anchorage on Saturday for the Women's March. As it continued to dump snow on Friday night and digging out our cars, let alone driving them, became less and less likely, we began to text about the potential of rallying some folks here in Seward, maybe even with skis on our feet, to do our own version of a march. Someone threw out an intersection near the Sea Life Center; I threw out 2PM; and the social media world took its course...

Indigo (and Lily) lead the charge as upwards of 100 people sing and chant and chat their way along an ocean path.

Purple and green on the outside, and pink on the inside.

HOPE. As the sun set and folks headed home, our little family retreated to the back yard to the snow cave Indigo and J had worked on during the morning. Candles lit, puffs of breath warming the small space, our little world felt safe and strong and whole.

The entrance.

All together.

And then this morning, the sun came out and all the new snow glittered and flashed. J and I had a "date day" and climbed the mountain behind our house, taking in views of the bay and then skiing down through the fresh three feet of powder, laughing and shrieking like little kids. A needed reminder that there is so much beauty in this world...

Descending from heaven...

A gift near the top of our climb - what appears to be the "track" from a bird, touching down for a moment before taking a few wing beats to lift up again...

And finally, in the spirit of keeping friends and family close (and not having so many holiday cards return to sender), here is our new address in Seward:

PO Box 2066, Seward, AK 99664