Posts Tagged ‘ community ’

Summer Sunday

At first I was wondering if amniotic fluid was like the ocean.  But the day’s journey began thinking about the color salmon; whether it works on the walls of your home or not.  I remembered hearing about a paint called “dead salmon.” Clever name. Cynicism comes to your local paint and hardware store. It...

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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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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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