Photo by Denise Chan via Flickr. Work OnceI kept so stillthat the Fiddler crabswhose burrows lay inches from my toesdecided that I bore them no threatand emerged to resume their digging,brandishing distorted claws,sorting grains of sand with infinitesimal clicks,the air full of their collective scuttle. I swear I thoughtthey would scatterat the vibrationsof my pulseasContinueContinue reading “Poem: Work”
Author Archives: Chelsey the Amateur
On a talk by Scott Russell Sanders
I’ve been participating in Emergence Magazine’s Writing Beyond the Environment Course over the past few weeks. At our meeting yesterday, we heard from Scott Russell Sanders and were invited into his gathered wisdom as a writer who seeks to illuminate those moments when we find ourselves as humans in deep communion with the natural world,ContinueContinue reading “On a talk by Scott Russell Sanders”
From the Good for the Soul File: Pens, Connection, and Pandemic
From the Good for the Soul File: A couple of years ago, a group from the congregation I served invited me to come up for a day of their service trip at a global distribution center. In my time there, we packed clothes for newborns and infants, we organized storage rooms, a few of usContinueContinue reading “From the Good for the Soul File: Pens, Connection, and Pandemic”
Chelsey D. Hillyer // Amateur Efforts 