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Tag: Blue

Featured Poetry

Haley Neddermann – blue

April 13, 2025April 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Emerging poet Haley Neddermann awakens us all from cold slumber into the sacred glory of the natural world with her poem "blue".

Tagged awaken, Blue, morning, nature, nature worship, Poem, poet, Poetry, spring, thaw2 Comments
Bill Evans Miles Davis
Texts

Improvisations in Jazz – Bill Evans’ Kind of Blue Liner Notes

April 9, 2021April 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

Bill Evans on Miles Davis' vision of the direct deed, and how they improvised something that evaded explanation.

Tagged Blue, improvisation, jazz, miles davis, spontaneity, ZenLeave a comment
Susan Brind Morrow
Book Bits

The Value of Honey – Susan Brind Morrow on the Oldest Form of Agriculture

January 29, 2021January 29, 2021 Vanessa Able

A dive into the particulars of beekeeping, 'the oldest form of agriculture' and a homage to the symmetry and symbiosis of bees, honeycombs and flowers.

Tagged bees, Blue, conservation, ecology, honey, nature, symmetryLeave a comment
Book Bits

Rebecca Solnit’s Blue of Distance

January 17, 2020December 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

Solnit pays tribute to the color that fills the space between herself and the object of her longing, and reflects on how this blue can in some ways be understood as love itself.

Tagged 2020, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Blue, Distance, Longing, love, Rebecca Solnit, The Blue of Distance3 Comments

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