Saxon Henry's Blog, page 18
July 2, 2014
Meeting Creatures from the Sea
27. The pulse of the surf and the endless stretch of water always soothe me. I feel healed—sighs escaping as the words I enter into my writer’s notebook unfurl on the page. The looping sentences flow as easily from my pen as they would from my lips if I were saying the words to a […]
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June 18, 2014
The Challenges of Writing Comfortably
25. I still my mind to focus on the sun as it breaks through a cloudbank, the scene hyper-illuminated as towering billows of moisture climb to the heavens like a chignon rimmed in gleaming clarity. How glorious would it be to have animated hair, cottony and irradiated as it feathered upward in a brilliant display! […]
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June 3, 2014
In Alakshak, Hearts Stabbed by Grace
by Saxon Henry My life was about to change more dramatically than it had in 13 years as commitments dissolved one by one, including my obligations to the mission field. It was my last day in Hughes, Alaska, though I didn’t know it when I fought my way up from the fog of sleep that […]
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May 20, 2014
Snapshot of Alaska: The Need to Know is a Hunger
by Saxon Henry I left sanity behind and returned to Alaska. The two-week stint in Hughes would remain one of the most poignant mission-field trips I would ever take. It would also be my last. I had asked my close friend Blythe, a therapist with extensive experience counseling challenged teens in New Mexico, to accompany […]
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May 5, 2014
What Libraries Might Teach Us About Living
Writing my post for The Curated Object illustrating a recent visit to the Bienenstock Furniture Library in High Point, North Carolina, which will go live next week, made me miss the times I delved into the archives of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University last year. I’m feeling the pull to […]
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April 30, 2014
Sax and the City: May Day NYC
by Saxon Henry New York City’s Union Square is bedlam when May Dayrolls around and I normally steer clear of the area on that day each year for that reason. Last year, I didn’t have a choice but to experience the uproar firsthand when a meeting drew me to that part of town. Afterwards, I […]
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April 22, 2014
Learning to Live with Wildlife: An Earth Day Narrative
by Saxon Henry On this Earth Day I feel far removed from the natural world, living as I do in New York City where we joke that the rats in the subway are about the only wildlife we see. This separation from the untamed animal kingdom hasn’t always been my lot. I once lived in […]
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April 13, 2014
Rolling Stone’s Tsarnaev Cover: 15 Minutes of Blame
by Saxon Henry A year ago Tuesday at 2:50 p.m., as people cheered Boston Marathoners toward the finish line, two crude bombs exploded on Boylston Street, shredding muscle, shattering bone and obliterating limbs. As horrified spectators and runners went into action using belts and varied pieces of clothing to tie off tourniquets, and the medical […]
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April 8, 2014
The Hazards of Being Smug
Today’s entries for my Pillow Book spring from exchanges I had with an extraordinary Native American triumvirate during visits to the Sioux reservations in South Dakota. You can read more about my relationships with them and other Lakota in my e-book Home of the Brave. It is my hope that my writing about Muriel Antoine […]
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April 1, 2014
In Alaska, You’re Just Another Link in the Food Chain
by Saxon Henry I’m a closet Weather-Channel addict. There, I confessed! No more secrets from readers (well, maybe just a few still)! I usually have the low hum of the station on while I’m journaling in the morning so I can stay up to the minute on Mother Nature’s mood swings. The routine I’ve used […]
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