Wilderness Blues- Ramblings from the Great Land

Once in awhile I hear a country song that touches my heart. Of course there is no shortage of songs about  drinking or cheating but some of the songs are pretty funny. One song talks about the wife hiring a wino to decorate their home so her husband will feel comfortable and not have to go to the bar. Another one by a popular country star is about a fellow who is given an ultimatum. He can either spend the day on the lake fishing or he can be with his wife. He's singing about how he's going to miss her. I more or less understand. Fishing can be as exciting as sex sometimes, and it lasts longer too. When I moved north to Wasilla, I discovered that there was a classic country radio station right here in town, KAYO. Somehow when I was skipping through the various stations on the car radio, we invariably would run across this station, and I discovered that I actually was enjoying what I heard. Unlike the music that the younger generation is listening to, I've never seen a count...

There are few places that one can go where the words Corona Virus or Covid 19 aren't heard now. It's a plague that has come upon the whole world. Turn on the TV and every news cast is filled from beginning to end with tales of sickness and death and fear. That's what newscasts do. They don't describe the everyday miracles that we enjoy. You don't hear about how many babies were born healthy this week, or that the sun came up again, just like it has since the beginning of time. Air is still free. Granted, air in some places is better quality than in other places.I'd much rather breath the air here in Hoonah Alaska than in Beijing China, but there still isn't any charge for it no matter where you live. There are still trees and flowers and deserts and beaches and everything in between. However, things aren't the way they were designed to be. Earth wasn't made polluted, with dirty air and streams. We made it that way by some of our practices. I'...