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31 Aug

The Church of Wild is really, actually, finally here!

  • By Jené Jackson
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Here in Colorado Springs, I woke to the first morning with a house cooler than when I went to sleep…autumn is coming. I have wanted to announce the following several times over the last couple of months and am finally
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10 Jun

On the Occasion of Getting the Results of a Biopsy

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In poetry
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On the Occasion of Getting the Results of a Biopsy a poem by Jene’ Jackson I lifted my eyes to the sky after hearing “all clear” at a dreaded follow up To see two hawks circling between contrail X’s hallways
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11 Oct

Derailed. Castle and the Sea

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In process
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I recently took a trip. To the beach. A dear friend asked me to cat-sit for a little over two weeks at her condo right. on. the. beach. Balcony overlooking the sand. Twenty or thirty yards from the water. I
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20 Mar

Back to Life: Weeping Salaams with Hugging and Wailing Dancing Spinning Gratitude and Pie

  • By Jené Jackson
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It was February 2012. I was about to launch the serialization of my book, The Oat Project. I got a call from family saying my mom was in the hospital. She had beaten cancer twice since 2008 but had struggled
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13 Oct

A Birthday Poem

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In blurting, Jené
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Fundamental, by Jene’ Jackson on her birthday, today, as she drove home down Colorado Avenue after writing all day. Perhaps, pungent as the cut onion’s night after night spray in kitchen curtains pervasive as the toddler’s goo griming the minvan
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18 May

The Gifts of Empty

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In Jené, process
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The kitchen is where my inner science geek and slapdashing artist get to dirty dance…pure alchemy. Cooking has always given me energy, yes; but it also requires a focus, effort, and sense of play that I haven’t been able to
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04 Apr

Divergent? Or Derailed?

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In blurting, book news, Jené, process
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What do you do when you fall short of a goal? How do you Define it? Is it a Divergence? Or a Derailing? Are you more motivated with humongous, “unrealistic” goals? Or small steps? I am slowly figuring out
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01 Apr

An April Fool’s Announcement – Not a Joke

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In book news, Jené, process
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I have learned to avoid announcing my intentions. The following through, the doing, the making good…they seem to hear my words and spiral away, in and out of me, up, down, or into some other dimension. Maybe my dad
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01 Feb

My Mother’s Words to Me, Through Me

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In blurting, Jené, process
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The last week or two, a sort of time warp has wrapped every moment in as intense a grief and dark a depression as just after my mother and sister-in-law died a year and two months ago. It’s as though
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13 Sep

The Dream Life

  • By Jené Jackson
  • In book news, Jené, process
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It just hit me. I’m living my dream life. Do I mean everything is perfect? Nope. That I have all I want? Nay. Then how? Well, it has to do with cooking. When people ask me what I “do,” I
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