HeyJaredA History of Kindness
by Kirstie McKinnon Small stories, deep ripples. Poetry, art, creatures and inspiring people. History — anytime from yesterday. I post once or twice a month from Dunedin, New Zealand. Welcome.
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- Sep 21, 2026
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- Jul 21, 2026
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Resistance to Icarus, Storm my new Book, and Speaking (opens the original)
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How many stones are laid on this rectangle of flat ground? The pavers are warm, dirt-honey colour, gently abrasive. I’m not going to write about Icarus, but still, I count the stones just to give me an idea of the number in my imagined turret prison. I’ve started to wonder — what if Daedalus had let Icarus make his own wings? Would the young man’s contact with feathers and wax have changed the outcome? Can we make wings for another person? What is this myth trying to communicate to parents? Wher
Icarus (opens the original)
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Process Journal for Crossing Places (opens the original)
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Hello there my loyal and decreasing group of paid subscribers. (Don’t worry, my free subscriptions continue to slowly increase). There’s something joyful about being able to unsubscribe, is there not… Read more
Crossing Places (opens the original)
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The base colour is lemon yellow, overlaid with blue like a sea. An orange-black line courses down the centre, representing: spine, nervous system, the resistance of fear. There’s a call to cross — into a mountainous, unknown, glacial place. Danger, tension and adventure are here. The gold in the painting suggests a helix: our own cellular impulse to journey — to resist this would be to deny something essential, to limit ourselves to safe-only, when perhaps safe-enough1 is where wisdom can expand
Process Journal for The Serpentine Lewis Pass (opens the original)
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The problem for an artist, when an image appears in the mind is — can I render this? So fear is the first gate, and unless we have a way to hold the fear, we artists — and by artists I mean writers — don’t get much further.<div class="image
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