tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231518.post6340189971929964931..comments2023-09-30T07:11:12.483-07:00Comments on pilgrimsteps: Mary Monday: lessons, shells, and solitudejanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06538362162139679868noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231518.post-88958255298245151042009-12-16T00:41:15.554-08:002009-12-16T00:41:15.554-08:00Your article is very good. I like it very much.Your article is very good. I like it very much.John Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01148138073618817344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231518.post-43141400239648252762009-12-14T23:52:07.158-08:002009-12-14T23:52:07.158-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231518.post-26425528571006239132009-12-01T06:55:36.663-08:002009-12-01T06:55:36.663-08:00I have always enjoyed Thoreau's writing about ...I have always enjoyed Thoreau's writing about Cape Cod. If you go to the Cape and read Thoreau, is is possible to banish from your mind the 20th and 21st century houses and the congestion and Route 6. In the fall and spring it is truly a healing place. Once I hitched a ride in a small commercial fishing boat from Newburyport to Provincetown. Arriving and departing by sea in October somehow intensified the sense of place and the continuity of time. <br /><br />My sisters and I share shells collected on the Connecticut shore by my grandmother and her mother over many years between about 1895 and 1917. They connect me with my family, my roots, my history, and a place. When I look at the artifacts of the beach where my ancestors lived, loved, thrived, and died, the difficulties of day to day life fade and become part of a larger and benign context. <br /><br />Truly I am at my best in the mountains and forests very far from towns, but I share the healing experience of the solitary beach.<br /><br />I have not commented in some time, but thanks for your continued blogging! I enjoy your entries very much.Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04179549759496076329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231518.post-8182205326473630352009-11-23T13:01:58.321-08:002009-11-23T13:01:58.321-08:00To the mountaintop, with the hawks and the wind.To the mountaintop, with the hawks and the wind.Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14231518.post-62516052660772306042009-11-23T10:52:00.678-08:002009-11-23T10:52:00.678-08:00Down to the river.Down to the river.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com