HeyJaredNo Lifeguard on Duty
Travel, adventure, sustainability, embracing aging because it's going to happen. My drug of choice is travel, and if I'm not doing my own, I'm creating it for others. Jump in, the water's fine.
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My Various Rescue Animals (opens the original)
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Not sure if anyone else gets joy from watching your rescue pet eat. My late dog Bones was a rescue; when I got her (she picked me out) it was one year after my divorce was final. She had been picked up by animal control in Evanston IL and taken to the wonderful no-kill shelter there - aptly named Evanston Animal Shelter. Bones was emaciated, and all her fur had fallen off. You could see cigarette burns and scars all over her face and body. She was terrified. She was caked in mud and personal was
Ozymandias (opens the original)
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I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:And on the pedestal these words appear:“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”Nothing besid
Post Surgery Missing in Action (opens the original)
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In the middle of March, I decided I would post daily about my back surgery and recovery. I also thought I would be in the hospital overnight, and able to fly to the graduation from University for 2 of my grandchildren. I thought it wasn’t a big deal - a laminectomy and fusion of L3/L4 and L4/L5. I told my surgeon my plans and he actually laughed at me.Surgery was April 17. I was in the hospital 5 nights. Moved to a rehab facility, and was there for 9 nights. The pain was excruciating and Norco o
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