The Gift of the Blue Moment

"The Gift of the Blue Moment" is the title of a chapter in a book I'm reading called Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life by Kent Nerburn. I think it speaks very much to our Blue Hour Blue Moon Writing Club mission: "The mother of the man for whom I worked was a very insightful woman. As a child of twelve she had watched the Nazis come into her classroom and take the Jewish children away . . . . She became a watcher and a survivor . . . . For months she watched me struggle with the demons that were driving me . . . One day she took me aside. "I watch you," she said. "I see the loneliness in your eyes. I watch your heart running away. You are like so many people. When life is hard, they try to look over the difficulty into the future. Or they long for the happiness of the past. Time is their enemy. The day they are living in is their enemy. They are dead to the moment. The live only for the future or the past. But that is wrong. "You must learn to seek the blue moment," she said. She sat down beside me and continued. "The blue moment can happen any time or place. It is a moment when you are truly alive to the world around you. It can be a moment of love or a moment of terror. You may not know it when it happens. It may only reveal itself in memory. But if you are patient and open your heart, the blue moment will come . . . the blue moments string together like pearls to make up your life. It is up to you to find them. It is up to you to make them. It is up to you to bring them alive in others" (pp.77-79). If you want to read about Kent Nerburn's and his thoughts on the writing process, go to his website at: http://www.kentnerburn.com/ . Let's each respond to this post by describing a Blue Moment.

Welcome Blue Mooners

Hi All,
I decided that we need to move the Blue Hour Blue Moon Writing Club to a BLOG format. Then we can all add links, scan in poems and short stories, and have it available to writers around the world. So let's get rolling by having you guys take it for a spin!