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Comments on: A State of Wild Grace https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2017/05/26/a-state-of-wild-grace/ Living Well with MS. Stories. Recipes. Hope. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:07:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.35 By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2017/05/26/a-state-of-wild-grace/#comment-31422 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 19:11:22 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7014#comment-31422 Thank you Pat! What a beautiful experience you had with the hawk. I appreciate the kind words about my post and also that you shared your own similar experience here.

]]> By: Pat Meadows https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2017/05/26/a-state-of-wild-grace/#comment-31421 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:23:53 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7014#comment-31421 Maria, your experience of gazing on the seal and it gazing back at you is very similar to one I had: but with a wild hawk. I never expected that. It just sat there, on a sign actually, about five feet off the ground. I didn’t want to go too close, but it let me get about ten feet away. And then we both just looked. Fantastic. Thanks for this post; it’s lovely.

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2017/05/26/a-state-of-wild-grace/#comment-31401 Mon, 05 Jun 2017 05:06:42 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7014#comment-31401 Dear Gena, thank you so much! I was SO happy to read that my words transported you all the way from NYC to my little patch of Oregon coast! I know you understand what it means to be accepted by someone who’s known you for a long time and just “gets” you–and I love how you noticed the symbiosis or wild, domestic and human animals in that single point in time. I’m with you about needing more of this coextistence in our sorely challenge world. xo

]]> By: Gena https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2017/05/26/a-state-of-wild-grace/#comment-31396 Sat, 03 Jun 2017 11:57:33 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7014#comment-31396 Maria,

Thank you for so evocatively and masterfully bringing us all into your new habitat. It speaks volumes that, when I read this post upon waking up, I felt entirely transported from my customary morning landscape of concrete and building tops and water towers!

I’m so glad that you were able to share it with a friend who has known you for so long, who has the wisdom and intimacy to so thoroughly understand your choice to be where you are at this moment in time. I hope her presence made you feel a little more grounded and witnessed and held in your new space.

I can definitely understand how the power of your moment of fixed gaze with the seal defies any sort of customary language, and I’m glad that you’ve brought the moment to life for us without trying to characterize or detail it in a way that would diminish or simplify it. I love the image of three types of animals–human, domestic, and wild–existing peacefully together at a single point in time; seems like the kind of coexistence we dearly need these days.

xo

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2017/05/26/a-state-of-wild-grace/#comment-31376 Tue, 30 May 2017 19:57:41 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7014#comment-31376 Thank, Dearest Peggy, for this lovely thought. Just what I needed to read right now. love and light back to you!

]]> By: Peggy Bean https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2017/05/26/a-state-of-wild-grace/#comment-31375 Tue, 30 May 2017 18:38:37 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7014#comment-31375 how lovely it must be to gaze into the eyes of wild creatures! and to exist between the worlds. as we know, what happens between the worlds changes all the worlds! blessed be, dear Maria. love and light, p

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2017/05/26/a-state-of-wild-grace/#comment-31359 Mon, 29 May 2017 05:33:34 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7014#comment-31359 Thank you so much, Suzy! Glad to introduce you to such an amazing place. Hope you get to see it all for yourself some day. 🙂

]]> By: Suzy https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2017/05/26/a-state-of-wild-grace/#comment-31356 Sun, 28 May 2017 21:22:54 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7014#comment-31356 I so look forward to your emails. These ones especially since your move to the coast. The way you describe the scenery and the animals you come across puts a wonderful picture in my mind. As an east coast girl wishing I could visit the west I really appreciate this.

]]> By: Maria Theresa Maggi https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2017/05/26/a-state-of-wild-grace/#comment-31354 Sun, 28 May 2017 19:32:05 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7014#comment-31354 You’re welcome, Silvia–so appreciate your wonderful readership from Germany, across the miles and another ocean–we are standing together this way! xo

]]> By: Silvia https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2017/05/26/a-state-of-wild-grace/#comment-31351 Sun, 28 May 2017 07:44:01 +0000 http://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/?p=7014#comment-31351 Thank You!
I love your stories, the feelings behind, the world you share.

Greetings from Silvia in Germany

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