HeyJaredA Forager's Journal
A Forager's Journal follows a journalling idea I started in 2010, a substack to be filled with recipes, poetics, ideas and whimsy.
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Monthly Poet (opens the original)
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Late last month sent me a link to Monthly Poet and it’s September one poem request - write a sixteen line poem using the following four words: sweet, crust, blues, and flock. Why not? I thought. I had a bit of time while sitting outside a laundromat, enjoying the first bit of spring sunshine. There was little time and few edits before uploading to the Monthly Poet site. It was fun and before I take on the October challenge I thought I should share my work. Leave a comment
I lied to my dog (opens the original)
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Footnotes from my week #7 (opens the original)
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I wish I had coined the phrase wibbly wobbly, timey wimey. I think about it often enough, perhaps contextually different to what was intended. But I’m not sure how else to think about the overlay of place and time and memories which sometimes loops around in my head (especially when I return to the city I think of as home). Does anyone else feel like this?Leave a commentSo back in Q
Footnotes from my week #6 (opens the original)
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Over the last week I have been repairing, a quilt I had made perhaps twenty years ago. My young grandson looked doubtfully at my efforts, especially when I said I was fixing it so that it might last another twenty years or so. The quilt is special, not because I had made it, but because I had made it mostly from pieces of fabric left over from various garments I had sewn over the years. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IcHs!,f_auto,q_auto
Footnotes from my Week #5 (opens the original)
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I love stopping off and browsing through the titles stacked on an old wooden table along the windowed front of a wee shop that’s not far from home. When I think about it I realise I’ve never thought to check out its name, it’s always been the quirky Bookshop in the Arcade – a magic maze of second-hand books and nicknacks and DVDs and vinyls and old videos for those who still have working machines. Inside everything is crammed into shelves and bundled into waist high stacks that encroach walking
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