HeyJaredMixing Metaphors
The newsletter of Milton Brasher-Cunningham that is a mash-up of life, faith, food, music, and poetry, looking at what it means to be human.
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I’m not sure how a week can feel a bit hectic and quiet at the same time, but this one has.Life is full because, well, life is full, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. I have gotten to spend time with people who mean a lot to me and also work on projects and keep promises. Learning to hear with cochlear implants is an invitation to renegotiate my relationship to the world and I am doing my best to answer that invitation as best I can. Silence is becoming a friend in ways I have not known b
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Since most all you have heard about from me over the past month is my cochlear implants, I’ll give a brief update. I have had both implants now for not quite two weeks and it is both a marvelous and difficult thing. I can hear, but what I hear is not what I am used to, and that is not unusual; that is the story many have told before me. Music, for the most part, is out of reach, unless it’s an old song that I have known for years that is just someone playing a guitar and singing. That means I ha
can you hear this picture? (opens the original)
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I am three days into life with two cochlear implants. It is noisy, hopeful, difficult, beautiful, and challenging. Or maybe that’s just daily life for all of us. I wrote the last of this cycle of poems on Tuesday night, and I offer them to you now. As I mentioned last week, I am marking this chapter by turning the poems into handmade booklets, so our dining table has turned into a workshop. If you would like me to make one for you, send me an email message with your mailing address and how many
camino de cochlear (opens the original)
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As I meet you here once again to share the poetry that is helping me mark these days of waiting until my second cochlear implant is activated (next Monday!), I want to let you know about a side project, or perhaps better to say an off-shoot, of this endeavor. My friend Heather suggested I turn these poems into a booklet that others could share. The idea also spoke to me because it gave me a way to have a tangible souvenir of these days. I am not imagining some grand publishing scheme. I am going
logic spiral (opens the original)
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I am a little over halfway through my time in this waiting room between my surgery and when they activate my new cochlear implant. It has been a less social time for me, since I can only hear on my left side, and it has also been as rich as it has been exhausting. I have continued with my daily poetry practice, so I have more to share. Thanks again for taking time to read, share, and support what I am doing.Subscribe now<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"
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