Posts Tagged ‘ connections ’

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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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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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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Brackish waters

This is where the ocean meets a river. Where salt meets fresh water and they mingle. It is a place of changes. It can be that place where you feel grief dropping off.  It’s kind of weird, you know, because it’s like letting go.  You don’t want to.  You can feel guilty. You wonder,...

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