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From Amy in Alaska, whose home our journals find their way to each season:
I sat down the other night to write something for Judy about living in Alaska, I was all fired up about misconceptions about Alaska, especially due to Sarah Palin’s nomination, but then this morning came. My boyfriend and I just closed on our house on Monday, and we went out today to fix up a few things before we begin the big move. Our new cabin is on ten acres, off the grid, with no running water. The amazing thing to me about living in Alaska is that I can live this way: with my solar panels, my foot pumped water and not a neighbor in sight and still be within walking distance to my office. I stood on the porch watching the sun gleam on the newly fallen snow, across the hillside and spruces, and for that little bit of time I wasn’t thinking about the elections, or the many things on my to-do list: instead I just heard the sound of water dripping and the popping of the woodstove. This is what Alaska gives me: peace within a larger than life landscape, community and solitude in the same place, a true home.
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