The biography of the Jewish people is what is known as the Bible. As events unfold, folds of time become revealed to us and teach us. Every portion of every week has messages for you. The interaction of events then and now have perpetual meaning for us as a people. We are graced with spiritual flashbacks; now intuition hits you in the face as Israel against all odds forms skin and tendons. There is a rhythm to the Torah. Its recital replicates all events of our people from the first kernel of Avraham Avinu who was told- “Lech lecha”-” Go to yourself.” The annals record nisayone- tests- tribulations and chronicles strong witness of faith in one G-d, the beginnings of a people in one land. Long ago, and today we return.
Wiseman and the Aurora
Wiseman was established in 1905 and became a booming town in the quest for Gold in 1910. Today it has a population of 13 and is designated as an Alaskan Native Village even though there are no natives who live there. There are two places to lodge, a public phone via satellite, and numerous historic and privately-owned cabins.
Trekking North on the Dalton
After watching the last of the caribou descend into the valley shelf to join their family members on the other side of the road, we continued toward Galbraith by ascending a long, steep, uphill winding road to the summit of Atigun Pass. The pipeline remained to our right in a buried, insulated concrete cribbing to protect it from rock slides and avalanches, and to keep the ground from thawing. Imagine constructing the pipeline in such conditions!
The Arctic Circle
If I ever had a ‘bucket list,’ I don’t really know. When I was a home schooling mom, I often wondered what it would be like to home school where no one could ever question your motive or your lifestyle. The only place I could find far enough away was Barrow, Alaska, the government seat…