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Of placenames

Of placenames

January 25, 2019January 26, 2019 Leave a comment

(July 2018) We lost a place this week. Ahalanui, I say with respect and humility, because only now I am learning that Ahalanui is “the great transgression,” a land division. I am not the one to write the obituary for the warm ponds, their history, the coastal trees, the shoreline facing the Pacific winds. I… Continue reading Of placenames

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Kathleen Stearns Friday lives on the island of Hawai’i. In Hawaiian tradition, her genealogy, which is rooted in New England, defines her. Her vocation and avocations bring her to Micronesia and American Samoa and into the worlds of music, forest and waters, and Christian community.

Essays

  • Forest Bathing
  • September 21, 2001
  • Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and other matters
  • Hard cider and sweet fallow
  • Of islands – November 2016
  • The nurse who didn’t catch the literary allusions
  • Of placenames

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