HeyJaredAlchemy of a Journey
Thoughts on “Becoming” through the five dimensions of being human. “We are spiritual beings on human journeys.” This is Soul work! This is how we cook our lives.
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Today’s T-Rex … (confirmed now!) (opens the original)
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NOTE: Given the recent news about an important, existential topic HOT in the news right now, I looked back at this essay I wrote quite a while ago to see how it held up. Turns out, it’s holding up well. Unfortunately. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal"
Apex? (opens the original)
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I’m working on part 2 of a three or four part series of meandering wonders about through-lines through these times. Every now and again, in the past of this “Alchemy of a Journey” substack, 267 essays to date, I’d send an original poem out into the ether—not for any acclaim or compliments, not for any other reason than to let words fly freely because it seemed they needed to. John Mellencamp, in 1987, released what became my second favorite song of his. In it, he speaks of poets. Now, as a caree
Through Lines? (opens the original)
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This is Part OneI still think often of how we’ll get through all this—and who we’ll choose to be when that time comes. I think as well who our new leaders will be, and the mighty task that will lay before them: a repairing of harm and things so deeply wounding, those of us alive right now might never get to see a full healing. When I think of those future leaders, I think of my grandson. He is among that generation of upcoming leaders. When he is of age, I think as well of the questions he’ll as
When does the beginning come? (opens the original)
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It’s been a minute. I appreciate your patience, even if you never realized it’s been a minute. (See the postscript if you have no idea what I’m talking about. I digress.)In times of the dark and the bleak, when despair might reign, if we are smart, we turn to the Elders among us (or should). And if our hearts are broke enough, and we are humbled, and we own up to the fact we have no answers, we shall politely ask of them, respectfully on bended-knee, for their wisdom. After their astonishment ca
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