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Paris Places Walked
By Jené Jackson March 19, 2022March 19, 2022 Jené

A Lovely Love Story: Paris and “Eye Prefer Paris”

I subscribe to several travel and photography newsletters, and Eye Prefer Paris is one of my favorites. Its genteel and gentle tone, straightforward photography, and glimpses of a Paris life consistently charm. It’s a glimpse into a life that is definitely close to how I think of as Ideal, a

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By Jené Jackson August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 Blog/Business/Jené

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

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 ready to go after overcoming delaying roadblocks of timing and

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By Jené Jackson June 10, 2019 poetry

On the Occasion of Getting the Results of a Biopsy

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 the high ways. The hawks circled each other together but

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By Jené Jackson October 11, 2015October 11, 2015 process

Derailed. Castle and the Sea

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 cleared it with my ex (we co-parent), arranged kids school

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By Jené Jackson March 20, 2015October 11, 2015 Jené

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

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 in the year before with “maintenance” chemo. She was having

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By Jené Jackson October 13, 2014October 13, 2014 blurting/Jené

A Birthday Poem

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 seats tenacious as the smoker’s film of brown on bedroom walls,

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By Jené Jackson May 18, 2014May 18, 2014 Jené/process

The Gifts of Empty

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 muster often over the last year and a half since

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By Jené Jackson April 4, 2014April 4, 2014 blurting/book news/Jené/process

Divergent? Or Derailed?

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 how I work best. I keep thinking that making big goals

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By Jené Jackson April 1, 2014April 1, 2014 book news/Jené/process

An April Fool’s Announcement – Not a Joke

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 was right. I must have a rebellious nature. And sometimes, I

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By Jené Jackson February 1, 2014February 1, 2014 blurting/Jené/process

My Mother’s Words to Me, Through Me

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 some parts of my mind and body have moved through

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Paris Places Walked

A Lovely Love Story: Paris and “Eye Prefer Paris”

All Those Beginnings

A Personal Mother’s Day 2020 Snapshot

Stylized dandelion on a black background with the Church of Wild in text

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

On the Occasion of Getting the Results of a Biopsy

YouTube, New and Old

LIWI and the Church of Wild

Ta-Dah! The Beginning of The Church of Wild: I Read to You