HeyJaredRobert Burke Warren, Showfolk
Bass player, writer, stacker of wood, teacher, performer, author of novel Perfectly Broken and one-man show Redheaded Friend.
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From This Broken Hill... (opens the original)
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Ahoy there, dear reader, and happy Leonard Cohen’s birthday to you. (The actual date is September 21st., last day of summer ‘26.) Because I’ve recently gained quite a few new subscribers and followers (thank you!), I’ve updated my annual salute to my favorite singer-songwriter, and I send it out once more. Please enjoy.If it be your will that a voice be trueFrom this broken hill I will sing to you.From this broken hill, all your praises they shall ringIf it be your will to let me sing. <div clas
The Jobs of a Lifetime (opens the original)
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Prince, Legacy, & Lies (opens the original)
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Perhaps because folks my age keep dying, I’ve been thinking about legacy, my own, and others’. Inheritances both genetic and acquired. I consider myself, my loved ones, and deceased artists whose work sustains me. I think about Prince singing “Baby, I’m a Star,”: Hey! Look me over, tell me do you like what you see? / Hey! I ain’t got no money, but honey I’m rich in personality.I think, 1) Prince did, in fact, have a lot of money, and a legendary legacy he did not protect, and 2) That rich person
MedeVac Chopper at Summer Camp (opens the original)
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The first-responder siren blares, followed by the beat of a MedeVac above the Catskills treeline. Humid air vibrates as twenty upturned faces shriek at a white chopper troubling the tips of spruce and maple, hovering like a massive insect. It descends toward the parking lot of a shuttered elementary school, home to an outdoor day camp where I work. Something terrible has happened. Someone in our little town is having the worst day of their life. Maybe the last day of their life. (No one at our c
A Love Story About a Friendship (opens the original)
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Did you ever realize after befriending someone that you share some scarring you thought you’d hidden?Sometimes years after “clicking” with a person, conversation will finally drift into deep waters, and lo and behold, you realize you’ve been having a secondary, silent, sub-conversation since your paths crossed. You weren’t exactly sure why you got on like a house on fire, but then:“Wait. You’re the child of an alcoholic/absentee/manic depressive TOO? Mental illness/addiction/enabling runs in you
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