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Apr 20, 2020 10 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Good Morning, Cicely!

The sun is peeking through the clouds and the ice on the lake is starting to groan - so for those sitting in their shanties ice fishing, be careful! (1/n) #northernexpsoure

Richard BERRY "Louie Louie" (1957) via @YouTube
Some local news: Maggie is reporting that since Maurice's lecture on "The Joy of Bidets" on Zoom the other evening, orders have ticked up on toilet conversion kits from Anchorage. If everyone wants to place a bulk order, we can get a discount. (2/n) Image
And in other news, the state pen is going to pipe in Cal Ingraham on Zoom who will be performing Mozart's violin concerto No. 3 for all of us - that's Wednesday night at 8:00 PM - don't miss out! I'll send out the link shortly. (3/n) Image
And lastly Ed wants us all to know that One-Who-Waits has been dropping in to remind everyone that folks have been decimating indigenous peoples with viruses for a long time - our community will get through this. (4/n) Image
Speaking of 'community' I've been thinking a lot about what that really means, lately. That word, 'community.'

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

That's John Donne, folks...16th century scholar and poet. (5/n) Image
The concept of 'community' meant a lot to Donne as he had to resort to mooching off his rich friends for food & rent when he blew his entire inheritance on womanizing and travel.

But what is 'community' to US, and how is resorting to electronic communication affecting us? (6/n)
I'm reminded of what Vonnegut wrote;

“Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing."

In normal times, I'd say Kurt was on to something. iPhones, Xbox, Amazon - it seems like you never have to leave your couch to live a life these days...(7/n) Image
But now, staying in touch via electronics IS literally how we remain a community. Maybe all those social distancing skills we've inadvertently learned through our gadget addictions is coming in handy? Maybe we're better equipped to handle a pandemic now than ever before? (8/n)
But when this is all over, we have to remember the rest of what Vonnegut said on the topic:

"We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.” (8/n) Image
So I'm spinning this one for all of you house-bound 'dancing animals' out there today. Turn it up real loud and get your boogie on for me. (end)

This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) via @YouTube

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Dec 10, 2020
Good morning, Cicely. This is Chris in the Morning on KBHR 57AM. For those of you that stayed up late enough last night for the clouds to break, you were greeted with a spectacular display of ye ol' Aurora Borealis. (thread)

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Hola Cicely,
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Sep 28, 2020
Goooooooood morning, Cicely!
It's Chris in the Morning coming at you from the KBHR studio in beautiful downtown Cicely, Alaska - 57AM on the dial. For some reason, I was thinking of karma when I awoke this morning.

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"Now as a man is like this or like that,
according as he acts and according as he behaves, so will he be;
a man of good acts will become good, a man of bad acts, bad;
he becomes pure by pure deeds, bad by bad deeds"
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Good Sunday morning, Cicely -
It's a brisk 31 degrees out there this morning so get your java brewing, wrap yourself up in your favorite blanket and set a spell while we watch that big ol' sun rise...#northernexposure (thread)

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