HeyJaredDiary of Olding
Aging, love of life, doubts about the world and its ways, self-published by me the writer because nobody else gives a shit and the world rushes on.
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CONNECTICUT SUMMER (opens the original)
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………………………………………………………writers’ musings:“It’s like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlamps illuminate, but you can make the whole trip that way, you see.” E.L Doctorow……………………………………………………..CONNECTICUT SUMMERWe didn’t know we would, but we ended up living almost all the decades of our adult lives i
WHAT IT'S LIKE (opens the original)
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………………………………………………..writers’ musings:“I’m just here to create.” Rick Rubin……………………………………………….WHAT IT’S LIKEIf all goes according to plan, I will be leaving this rural valley where I’ve made my home after Rex died for almost six years now. Oh how beautiful the landscape is. You can see, really see, how California is made here: the grasslands, the oak-stud
APOLOGIES (opens the original)
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TO MY READERS AND SUBSCRIBERSYes, it was unintentional to blitz you with a multiplicity of postings. I have been so preoccupied with getting settled into my new home that I wasn’t paying attention to my SubStack schedule for DIARY OF OLDING. Hence, the blitz. Those pieces were actually intended for December.As ever, you have been loyal and responsive. Thank you always for the wonderful attention you give to my mini-essays.Judith
MORNING HAS BROKEN (opens the original)
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…………………………………………………writers’ musings:“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, and to fight.” Richard Wright………………………………………………..MORNING HAS BROKENWhen I was so much younger things actually seemed more absolute in a way, never questioning root submissiveness to un
ODE TO LOS ANGELES (opens the original)
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………………………………………………………“We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospect.” Anais Nin……………………………………………………….ODE TO LOS ANGELES..and the images crowd along, and fleet away. Not only image. Sensory recollections, like the scent of night-blooming jasmine. Little bungalows that delivered charm. Little streets emptying out onto the boulevards. Hil
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