About

Hello, we’re Lynn and Mark Barger Elliott. Blue Lobsters Creative was born on a dock in Provincetown when our family came across three blue lobsters in 48 hours (see below).

Since then as educators, counselors, faith leaders, a professor of leadership, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker, we have attempted to point to and describe the joyful, faithful, and hopeful aspects of life, seen and unseen.

Blue Lobsters Creative publishes small books with big ideas, consults with universities and other organizations, and co-founded the Miracle Year Project.

Our Blue Lobster Miracle

One day in Nantucket we visited a small aquarium and saw a blue lobster scurrying about in a six foot round pool. A young woman informed us a blue lobster is an anomaly: only one out of every 2 million lobsters is born blue.

I mentioned to my then 12 year-old son that statistically this meant the next time he would come across another blue lobster he would be about 2,700 years old (loosely counting days).

Twenty-four hours later, strolling along a beach in the port village of Provincetown, our family happened to walk under a dilapidated dock, the kind with missing boards and stray posts. Our heads were positioned downwards as we scanned the beach for slipper shells and horseshoe crabs, but what we came across, of all things, was two more blue lobsters. 

These weren’t swimming in an aquarium, but were sitting together on a weathered post, side by side, facing us. Now, if encountering a single blue lobster is a one in a 2 million event, how do you calculate the odds of stumbling upon three such lobsters within twenty-four hours? Two of them arranged on dock posts, as if displayed in a museum. As if someone had put them there for us to find.