HeyJaredNAKED AND ALIVE
Poetry, essays, thoughts about life, our human condition, education and language. A poet and thinker eeking out a living here and now, naked and alive.
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Beaches (opens the original)
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“At the beach, time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted.” - T. S. EliotI have a confession to make. I don’t like the beach. There I said it. To me, the beach is like a jail cell. You sit there locked in but not locked in, a beached whale, doing dick all and being roasted to death by lethal heat rays. It sucks. I love the mountains, the trees. My version of hell is a barren beach or any stretch of wasteland devoid of growing matter(s). That said, I live in a culture that basically worships the beac
Your Freedom To Speak (opens the original)
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“I may disagree with what you say but I’ll fight to the death for your right to say it.” - the sentiments of Voltaire and the Enlightenment.On PrivacyWhen they lop off my head anderase every god damned word.When they mop up all the bloodone thing will remain —the fact I was heard.…..The mind moves and nobody knowsthis alone, salvation —A light goes on yet nothing shows.There has been a lot of brouhaha about the singer Ed Shereen trampling on free speech and <a href="http
I Like Trains (opens the original)
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“A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.” ― Russell BakerI recently traveled home by train. The slow train, the milkrun train, the train that stops at every station (and more). It’s call the “Mugunghwa” named after the hibiscus syriacus - known locally as the Korean Rose, the national flower. <a class="image-link image2" href="htt
How To Be A Poet (opens the original)
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I’ve been diving into Wendell Berry and his oeuvre this past week. As regular readers have noticed from a few previous posts. Today, after watching an interview of his daughter speaking about how wrong so many were to consider him a “crank”, I was reminded of his advice poem to present and future bards - How To Be A Poet.Berry offers a few good suggestions; be silent, reject tech, relax, go slow, make the poem an offering, a prayer, be patient, shun adulation,
On Birthdays (opens the original)
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Regular readers may recall that I spent some time in the Czech Republic. It was Czechoslovakia back then — that’s how many times I’ve circled the sun. I like how they celebrate birthdays there (not to mention the beer!). When it is your birthday, you have to pay. And there is no ducking it. All your friends and dear ones will hound you and find out where you are taking them, where you are going to be. Even the KGB didn’t have such vast powers. It makes sense. It’s a sure-fired way to make sure y
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