HeyJaredHistory, Beauty, Theology, and Stuff I Hear at EZ-Mart
You can expect a semi-regular serving of culture and humanity from this potluck of insights. Original content from a perfectly average guy, somewhat misplaced in the small-town south, who frequents lakes, rivers, and convenience stores.
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On the Madison (opens the original)
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Twenty years ago while driving a rented Subaru through an expansive valley in Yellowstone National Park, I saw a solitary, middle-aged guy fly fishing. I vowed that it would someday be me. I finally made it back, and spent the past week camping, cooking, photographing, fishing, hiking, and generally loafing. I have reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder, so every southern summer is a slog. I’m never sure that I’ll survive each Arkansas August and the hot first half of September. I feel the drought
The Consolation Prize (opens the original)
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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was a Modernist Irish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, and is recognized as one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. “Numerous writers credit him for introducing them to the possibility that a poem could hold so much substance if only one knew how to say what they felt as efficiently and eloquently as he” (Holden). He was also down bad. Really bad. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.co
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