January 2011 – Monhegan Commons

Written on the Mainland – Jean Gowdey

January 30, 2011 Marjorie Mir

WRITTEN ON THE MAINLAND In all the moss-deep silences, And all the dappled wells Of silence, gray and green and gold, In closely woven spells The trees make, in the island’s heart– Still half-uncaptured we Within ourselves must hear the sound Of slanting, murmurous sea. It is an island’s value that Each least thing, […]

Winter Grass

January 30, 2011January 28, 2011 Peter

Winter at the Cove

January 29, 2011January 28, 2011 Peter

Dori’s Winter

January 28, 2011 Peter

Global Warming?

January 27, 2011 Peter

Setting

January 26, 2011 Peter

Dream on

January 24, 2011January 24, 2011 Peter

The Comfort of a Smooth Stone – Betsy Kudlacz

January 23, 2011 Marjorie Mir

THE COMFORT OF A SMOOTH STONE I collected stones like friends filled empty shelves with chunks of mountain granite their feldspar blushing pink in mica mirrors, crinoids, trilobites, brachipods those hard bodies of Ordovician sea stuff, gaping mouths of geodes flashing sharp crystal teeth, odd lumps of pock-marked pumice, a smorgasbord of conglomerate. I collect […]

Even more!

January 23, 2011January 22, 2011 Peter

Thomas Crowley, Jr’s Monhegan

January 22, 2011 Peter

First Contact, Lifetime Impact I first sailed into Monhegan when I was 17. It was 1965. I saw a man walk out of a shelter made of driftwood followed by goats. I saw a white hotel on the other island and no one was there. I heard a car engine and then it stopped. It […]

More snow!

January 22, 2011January 21, 2011 Peter

Looking up

January 21, 2011 Peter

Larry Wilson’s Monhegan

January 20, 2011January 20, 2011 Peter

My first experience of Monhegan was summed up in a sonnet I wrote which starts : “we came last summer, just the day, an impulse ticket out of Boothbay Harbour, and the Island hidden, clouded, veiled in rain…” Someone had declared a poetry night at the Library and I wrote two sonnets in an afternoon […]

Not for swimming

January 19, 2011January 18, 2011 Peter

Dawn Peck’s Monhegan

January 18, 2011 Peter

I have been really enjoying all the responses to Experiencing Monhegan (for the first time or again). Monhegan seems, based on so many of these descriptions, to be a true wellspring to many people – a place to be renewed in whatever way each needs to be. That is amazing. My own first experience of […]

Zimmie’s helping hand

January 18, 2011 Peter

Stones – Bonnie Enes

January 16, 2011 Marjorie Mir

Epigraph: In winter a stone is frozen in place when there is a thaw there is a space underneath that fills in with dirt lifting the stone the stone doesn’t work its way up to the surface. –Robert Thorson, Stone by Stone Stones Robert Thorson has a thing for stones. Moved here […]

Mostly sunny and cold

January 16, 2011 Peter

A Commitment to Alternative power

January 15, 2011 Peter

Remembering Monhegan

January 14, 2011January 14, 2011 Peter

(This isn’t MY (Thais Faller Gloor’s) memory, but the response of a friend that brings to mind many things.) Last summer a first-time visiting friend of mine commented after a couple of days on how “immersed in the earth” she felt while on the island. I loved the way she put it, and totally agreed […]