Striations and splash
Author: Jnana Hodson
In downsizing to a remote fishing village in Downeast Maine, this eclectic writer feels everything's coming together.
Dover Friends identity when I came to New Hampshire
The Church of the Clamshell Alliance
Things that make me happy
- Savoring those rare moments when I don’t feel an inner compulsion to be moving on from whatever I’m actually doing. That is, when I’m free of that old weight of duty kicking in.
- As happens in Quaker worship. As well as Orthodox Easter and other feast days.
- The North Atlantic.
- Birds at the feeder. Or sighting an eagle or osprey anywhere, even hawks or hummingbirds.
- Fresh tomatoes or asparagus. Along with other things straight from the garden.
- Lobster, scallops, mussels, crabs. The joys of living so near the ocean.
- A good poem or novel, especially by an unknown writer.
- Musical performance that breaks free of convention while remaining true to the score.
- Arriving at a mountaintop by foot.
- Loving someone special. Especially.
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Your turn.
As for that question, ‘Do you have a sister?’
In my novel What’s Left, Cassia’s great-grandfather and his brother marry two sisters. One is named Athina.
How do people in your circles discover each other as couples?
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she grew fat with lies that vined around the very door
I’d slipped through
Two-pound steamed lobster
Where would science be without this?
A revolutionary ideal
one God, one Truth
rather than this or that, by whim or willy-nilly
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The mystery of the big bang, something out of nothing, a scientific paradox, all leading to human consciousness. A honeybee cannot be an accident, nor can a human.
Only a divinity could create such a mishap!
With the element of chance in tie-dye or batik
you no doubt recall a cheery visit in Rhode Island or a ferry trip to Block Island an hour-and-a-half each way in gray eight-foot swells (we, too, rent a Mo-Ped to zip around on while out there) or a smoky Cog Railroad to the top of Mount Washington, a strategy that beats hiking to the 6,288-foot-elevation’s windy sub-alpine summit
What you should know about Dungeness crab
In my novel Nearly Canaan, Joshua and Jaya settle into a place unlike anything they would have imagined. It’s desert, for one thing, where nearly everything has to be irrigated, for another. Quite simply, it’s a lot like Yakima, in the middle of Washington state. But it’s also close to fresh Dungeness crab, a shellfish with a heavenly taste all its own.
What you should know.
- It draws its name from Dungeness, Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula.
- It’s not King Crab, mind you, an Alaska specialty, but it is threatened by ocean acidification.
- It has five pairs of legs. (I haven’t counted the ones on a lobster.)
- It is found largely between Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and Santa Barbara, California. But don’t overlook that Washington state connection, right in the middle.
- About one-quarter of the crab’s weight is meat. One crab usually satisfies one person, though sometimes it will be shared by two.
- It has a delicate flavor and a slightly sweet taste. Don’t ask me to compare it to chicken or anything else. Not even lobster. It’s as different as cod is from salmon.
- It’s the State Crustacean of Oregon. What else do they have?
- If you go out at night trying to find one with a strong light focused in the water, you can likely rake up one right next to a decaying starfish.
- You really can’t get it here, wherever that is, outside of the Pacific Northwest.
- If you haven’t guessed, I really do miss them. They don’t travel well.
Double star
