Wild blues

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

Broken china

I save the China my mother loved. Older women easily recognize the Johnstone rose pattern. I even save the dishes when they break. I remember when my mother got into redecorating our small dining room on Fabian Place in Newark.  She never did anything like this before.  She picked out a showy, striped shade...

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one of those streets

One of those streets             for the young woman killed in Newark the other day because she loved another             woman I was going to say this was one of those streets. Walkin’, talkin’, takin’ down the beat. It’s just that, I was a young girl there once too. Shopped on the weekends, pizza...

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A wing, a bone

Is it the cycle I’m in now, can you tell, abacus eyes? I journey through a territory that I half know,             half intimate - an insect on a spider’s brocade. Sacjawea traveled her dreamscape             with Lewis and Clark. Knowing the land like a song             of currents and rifts she took them...

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Foggy days of spring

Woke up to a great fog coming up the hill and crossing the boundary onto my property line. Some things know no borders and that’s a good thing. Wish peace and all good things were like that. Waxing sentimental. Would have should have put “sentimental” as a tag on this site and several posts....

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tell it like it is

Tell your story, your fears, your concerns, your love, your joy – but tell it like is and listen to yourself. Let the people around you know that you’re happy again or that love has found you or that your loss, the loss of your friend has gripped you so and you don’t know...

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Words can help

The thoughts and words of those that have written about grief and resilience can be a help. Sharing your story is a good first step. This site is about the transformation of our silent pain into a mosaic of shared realities.  We keep weaving our stories with the threads we have.  “Although words cannot...

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the wild blues

The Wild Blues will be here soon.  Based upon a performance piece called The Wild Blue, this site is the future home of the book The Wild Blue, the blues chamber, a place for words about grief and the rainbow chamber, a place for words about resilience.  Since this site is meant to be...

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