Wild blues

The mosaic of grief and resilience. Resources and writing based on the script of The Wild Blue.

Dreamers dare

Dare I dream that Conversations with Nic is finally out loud and available to read? I do. It is – http://amzn.to/14jUNUs. There’s more to come. Including the book version of The Wild blue. When the voice that is quiet is given sound, the world changes.  My world just changed and this time I’m owning...

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Peace Pilgrim is Back in Town

Any movement for peace seems to be an open door to a future I’d like to enter. There are people throughout our lives and before that have made a cause their cause and entered an arena that was larger than them.  This is what happened to Mildred Norman Ryder. She transformed into Peace Pilgrim,...

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Safe harbor

Melville wrote about an “insular Tahiti. ” A tropical paradise, safe harbor, all within our being? Sounds good to me. The notion that you can go with the flow and be in the place that feels right is related to this island within your being.  There are so many things that pull on us...

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Swimming through your world

My good thoughts and well wishes go out to the fish and wildlife living in the region.  Same to all the people involved in trying to do hands on help for the animals, waterways and well, everyone and everything in the Gulf area. Also, a deep bow to the dolphins that live in those...

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the wetlands

It was about the loss. It was about the incomprehensible need to keep it safe. Was it about immortality, the fear of death, legacy? Or just that this beauty is my love. I do not know another way to say this. I love these wetlands. The telephone wires held high above the bridge. Two...

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The Appalachian Trail and the Sea

I’m writing a book for some time now. It’s about the intersection of grief, resilience and coastal environmental concerns. During the last year while working very slowly or just absorbing information for the chapter I’ve been on, it seemed I needed to know why I was doing this, to even justify my writing and...

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La Vie en Wetlands

It started out just as Yeats had said. It was about work and the grind and the difficulties and the schedule and the lack of freedom and everything that doesn’t feel like anything you want with the exception of the paycheck. If you’ve been there and done that, then this could be your signature...

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Message to self and others

Writing is an interior act and behavior. Anyone that engages in this activity understands this. You enter a world of your own and begin whatever it is that you or others might call writing.  It is an inside job.  Its such an inside job that it’s strange for me to think of it as...

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Compassion with ya

I would like to be tethered by the idea that you travel together in groups or communities like a field of flowers blossoming together in the spring.  People so often feel alone and feel the pain of this aloneness because being solitary and being human seems to be incompatible estates.  Our friends and family,...

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Stirring the Soup or Teagong

My qigong practice begins with stirring the soup.  Right away I notice the interior dialogue that I’m having. It isn’t just dialogue. It’s lists and to dooz that I remembered I didn’t do.  It’s imaginary conversations; even comebacks or responses I wish I had made. It is the stuff of talking with others or...

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