Posts Tagged ‘ nature ’

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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the right wave

Everything is Buddha-full in its own way-ay  I can’t help but be silly today  Pronouncements are bounding out of my fingertips before I can censor them.  Maybe it’s the season. Summer is a release from winter pushed by the green green fuse of spring. Sure, that’s a lot like Dylan Thomas.  What is more...

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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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Hiroshige’s dream

Foxes waiting under a moonlit tree to become human have only parcels of land and the domed shadows of trees.  Do you know this as despair?  We all learned that the West was the frontier. As the...

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