Dear Anonymous,
This is Joe. This is an image from years ago when I would encounter Joe on my first light forays near the waterfront. He was always kind to me. I wonder about Joe and if he is okay in a world turned a bit inside out.
A far cry from my beloved Lunenburg Dory, but it will have to do this morning.
A far cry from my beloved Lunenburg Dory, but it will have to do this morning. In it I place all conspiracy theories and send it off to sea.
I have been enjoying microgreens from Sprout House Microgreens...
I have been enjoying microgreens from Sprout House Microgreens, a business created by a neighbor of mine who grows these in his backyard greenhouse. Order by email weekly. Bursting sprouts, ridiculously fresh and uplifting. Great side or embellishment to those fresh scallops and fish you can get off the boats these days...and wonderfully nutritious.
Find Sprout House Microgreens on Facebook. Falmouth based business.
https://www.facebook.com/sprouthousemicrogreens/
Third face mask I’ve seen trashed today on my socially distant walks.
Third face mask I’ve seen trashed today on my socially distant walks.
We can support one another.
We can support one another.
A message from Stu Jones:
I have lobsters if anyone is interested.
Message me 776-0034.
Here's the opportunity to buy direct from the boat. You will know who harvested them. You will know his boat. You'll never feel the same the next time you look out in the harbor and recognize the Ann Elizabeth.
See mainelobsterfishermen on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Z4oOSJqRn/
REPOST FROM @rugged_seas “There is no better time than now to support local businesses... this includes farmers and fisherman. It’s a scary time for all of us, life has changed drastically in the last two weeks, but now is the time we all need to come together and support one another. My cousin is a lobsterman out of Portland, Maine. He has been selling fresh lobster right from his boat to try and sustain his business.... if anyone is looking for fresh lobster at a good price contact @harvester9283 “
Whole fresh ground fish from the Capt’n Jake
A message from a waterfront friend Ian Mayo:
The Covid-19 has definitely made our fishing industry come to a screeching halt. So to make a change we’re going to try something new by making a day trip and landing in Portland with FRESH ground fish on Monday for sale. If anyone would like whole fresh ground fish from the Capt’n Jake please let me know! This is buying fresh and as local as you can get!
Contact Ian Mayo via Facebook.
Trash talk 2020.
Trash talk 2020.
I might stand outside our six foot boundary and look in and let my heart fill and I would feel you hold me up.
I might stand outside our six foot boundary and look in and let my heart fill and I would feel you hold me up.
Amy Stacey Curtis, I'll be celebrating your birthday all day long...
It was my microbiologist daughter, Anne Madden, who taught me to wash my hands for the time it takes to sing the Happy Birthday song twice through.
During this COVID19 social distancing I find myself noting whose birthday it is on any given day and washing my hands repeatedly throughout the day singing Happy Birthday to them.
It's a funny little practice that has risen from functionality
(it makes me slow down the process and wash more thoroughly and more often) to spiritual ritual. I enjoy it. It brings that person(s) closer to my attention. Closer to my heart. And that helps reduce all this distance and isolation.
Amy Stacey Curtis, I'll be celebrating your birthday all day long singing 'Happy Birthday Dear Amy, Happy birthday to you!' in the spirit of your recent singalongs....ALL DAY...after I go for a walk. Before I make coffee. After I clean the rug...again. Before making lunch. After. Well...you get the idea.
Happy Birthday to our brilliant superhero of the heart and healing, you bedazzled beauty made of sweet stuff AND that highly polished intellect.Wow.
This is another photo from our recent collaboration.
Please see Amy's full blog post at www.theartistplan.com
By the river just before the bridge in a parking lot adjacent to the sea.
By the river just before the bridge in a parking lot adjacent to the sea. Covid19 Testing Site not yet operational. Portland/ Falmouth Maine
Signs of the time. Martin's Point Health Center.
Signs of the time. Martin's Point Health Center.
Seen at Martin's Point Health Center this morning. Thank you, thank you, thank you to whoever created this and deep gratitude to health care workers worldwide.
Seen at Martin's Point Health Center this morning. Thank you, thank you, thank you to whoever created this and deep gratitude to health care workers worldwide.
Keep going, Margo. Keep going.
Margo Walsh. Remember this moment? 2016 when we could not have imagined social distancing? I believe this is Alden Andrews hugging someone who has just arrived to the circle. Someone he has recognized from either detox or rehab or another life and they connect. And here you are holding that space saying something to all of us like 'See? See? THIS is how this works.'
Keep going, Margo. Keep going.
NOTE: Margo is currently collecting all the N95 masks she can locate to donate to MMC or other health providers.
Last week he tells me from across the street that he'd like more anti-microbial wipes if I have any. I did because of you Dear Anonymous.
Last week he tells me from across the street that he'd like more anti-microbial wipes if I have any. I did because of you Dear Anonymous. He was using them on the bus even though the bus driver was also wiping surfaces down.
'I wipe down what I can before I sit down. I wipe down everywhere I touch before I leave... The bus driver thanked me.'
On another day at another time I would have hugged him, or maybe just put my hand on his arm to acknowledge that I heard that last part.
'The bus driver thanked me.'
That held such tenderness. I remember wilting.
Instead I left the wipes, and a coffee card and clean socks
( which he recycles where he shelters, so that they can be washed and used again ) on the granite step where he will walk and pick them up.
I will remain wondering if he knows how buoyed I was by his response.
And from a distant star all our isolation and distancing still appeared like a gathering.
And from a distant star all our isolation and distancing still appeared like a gathering.
Emily's Oysters. Fresh from the sea. To your doorstep. At a social distance.
This is Emily Selinger. She sterns for the lobster boat the Haley G. But she's also a kickass oyster farmer. Emily will deliver fresh oysters to your door step. Honest. Fresh from the sea. To your doorstep. At a social distance.
www.emilysoysters.com or follow her beautiful Instagram account at #emilysoysters.
Fresh oysters a few hours from the sea. Maybe we can all help support local folks at this crazy time and stay healthy too. You might not ever have fresher product. Thanks Emily Selinger!
Deeply missing the Pioneers of Recovery.
Deeply missing the Pioneers of Recovery. These are tough times and we may not have realized all those previous tough times were actually some of the good times. You are all in my heart though that is not what will pay your rent, or child support, or fines and fees, or your food bill.
Memory from March 27 2018: I have never been more convinced than now that we each see what we see and that that view is utterly unique. How we see ourselves matters. How we perceive our situation; How we chose to meet challenges; How we frame our experiences...all the work of recovery. A powerful lesson for us all.
Coming to a Neighborhood...soon.
Coming to a Neighborhood...soon.
The Testing Tent At Dawn. Before It Appears Operational.
The Testing Tent At Dawn. Before It Appears Operational.
That unspeakable curve.
That unspeakable curve.
A quote from 10 years ago. I still feel this way:
The only effective health care plan is one that considers the quality of our thoughts. All the organic kale, omega 3's and latest greatest super fruit can't over ride the voice in the middle of the night, that no one else hears, whispering "I am terrified. I am worried.". Just a thought.