Heading North
Joe is off to Old Crow this week to teach a course at the local college campus. There was a time when he would have been excited about going, but things just aren't the same up there since Mary Kassi died. Mary lived there all her life and was the grandmother of a good friend of ours. She accepted us as family with an open heart. It was she more than any 'blood' family member who really showed concern and support when Iris was having her eating troubles.
I have wonderful memories of travelling down the Yukon River with her to Dawson several years back. We ended up at an Aboriginal Day celebration in a tiny community a few hours north of here, dancing late into the night to Ernest Monias and his band! She outlasted me. What a neat lady!
6:12:38 AM 
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