Beauvoir left their home wanting to call his wife and tell her how much he loved her, and then tell her what he believed in, and his fears and hopes and disappointments. To talk about something real and meaningful. He dialed his cell phone and got her. But the words got caught somewhere south of his throat. Instead he told her the weather had cleared, and she told him about the movie she'd rented. Then they both hung up.

Life is flinching in the midst of breathing, gasping at the thought of dying. It’s climbing ropeless up sheer rock faces, groping for the next finger-hole of hope. Steady on! Only a thousand feet to go and after that a jungle, a minefield, a rapids. (Can I stop smiling now?)Once, not long ago, I was flung off the cliff of the moment, thrust into an illicit relationship with destiny, an affair not of my making. Was I making love or being raped? The lines were fuzzy.

How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the current obsession with excess and hierarchy imploded. Wilma said many Native people believed that the earth as a living organism would just one day shrug off the human species that was destroying it—and start over. In a less cataclysmic vision, humans would realize that we are killing our home and each other, and seek out The Way. That’s why Native people were guarding it.

“Lindale is very well coached, they have good athletes, good size, they're smart and do what it takes to stay in games. We hope our press will dictate the pace of the game.”

“We're hoping to get a bump from it. It remains to be seen if the gas prices are going to have a negative impact. But with hockey not playing last year, I think the fans are starved for some attention.”

“It's a pretty pathetic addiction. I'd sit there actually concerned, really hoping that Jorge Sosa got the win or Dave Roberts got a stolen base. No rational person behaves in this manner.”

“Hope is a solid defense person. She's got a very long reach that messes up a lot of forwards that are coming down. She played well tonight. Everyone played well on defense.”

“We are hoping to build from our first win last week. Trinity has a very good program. Their offense is excellent. They will be ready to play after having last week off.”

“I don't know if he can do something this good for any other band because he's such a fan and it shows. We hope he gets a lot more work from this.”