J. Redel

True Wildness Is A Voice Free To Say Spontaneous Things

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To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic.

True wildness is a love of nature,

a delight in silence,

a voice free to say spontaneous things,

and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

— Robert Bly

  • Do You Count Dunkin’
    Prosing in StarbucksNo dirty coffee shops hereDo you count Dunkin — J Redel haiku Do You Count Dunkin’
  • Stop Looking For Someone To Complete Your Life
    Your death is more certain than your wedding day. Stop looking for someone to complete your life. You’re not missing a man. You’re missing the life you’re too busy waiting to live. — J. Redel
  • When You Rise, Kiss The Tombstone of Your Past
    When you rise, kiss the tombstone of your past and step barefoot into the garden of the future… — Maria Popova from poem How to Change Your Life
  • Then You Must Know About Grief
    Tell it this way: depression is the 30cm nail driving into the walls. If  you ever read about Plath… ever tended a garden it grew so wild to swallow god, ever kept dressing the fire in your bones, then you must know about grief — NOME EMEKA PATRICK from poem Sylvia Plath as an Old… Read more: Then You Must Know About Grief
  • So I Dated Unsuitable Men
    So I went back to an old lover To get over you. But it turned outHe didn’t want me. So I dated unsuitable menAnd went unsuitable places. I behaved badly. There was even a guyWith worse teeth than you. —I didn’t know your teeth were bad.You should have told me.— Finally, I sat down and… Read more: So I Dated Unsuitable Men