And the Flowers Are Still Standing
- Post By: Jason Santo
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- Category: life
50. There’s never been a more daunting birthday than this one. I lost a lot of sleep in the months leading up to this milestone, and my mental and physical health have both felt burdened. I’m not sure where to go in life at this point. There are no real goals. There are no real […]
Read MoreThings Continue to Transition
- Post By: Jason Santo
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I’m in an unexpected state of transition. After eleven years of consistent, steady employment, I jumped ship for a cool company located about 25 miles south of me. Having commuted 45 miles for most of those eleven years, I figured this would be a walk in the park. Yeah, I was wrong. It wasn’t just […]
Read MoreThe Pains of a Slowing He[art]
- Post By: Jason Santo
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- Category: life
My heart’s been acting up, in more ways than one. Life’s been busy, chaotic with a new commute and challenging from a friends-and-family perspective as I try to juggle the time I spend with those I love. The kids are growing remarkably fast, and I’m struggling to keep up with changes in their personalities and […]
Read MoreCarnivorous Musings – Winter 2024 Mix (20240102)
- Post By: Jason Santo
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- Category: playlists
The first of many archived seasonal playlists which, sadly, have become my only consistent creative expression these many, many years!
Read MoreYuletide Smash – Special Winter 2024 Mix (20231221)
- Post By: Jason Santo
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- Category: playlists
Yeah, I’ve been using the same Christmas music playlist for about twenty years now, maybe adding a song or two every few years. This year, inspired by a buddy of mine, I decided to go ahead and find a whole playlist full of new Christmas tunes. And what resulted was this blue bit of yuletide […]
Read MoreThings Can Change
- Post By: Jason Santo
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- Category: life
I write this having moved this fledgling – and now rather aged – repository of creative work to yet another webhost, having grown sick of the setup I’d had previously which had me annually forgetting the process to renew and install the security certificate. Now the host does it automatically and I can breath easily […]
Read MoreKicking the tires
- Post By: Jason Santo
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- Category: life, Uncategorized
So begins three months of nothing but what I want to do. I’ve worked diligently for well over thirty years, and now – finally – some time off to concentrate on things I want to do. It’s an incredible feeling that I’ve been writing about or describing in conversation to people every day since I […]
Read MoreWhat’s Ours, What’s Theirs
- Post By: Jason Santo
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- Category: verse
We’re crafting big Hells
In little packages,
Gift-wrapped by hands
Aching with pride,
Bones undone by the delicate task
Of inviting suffering
Where tenderness was required.
What’s Poppin?
- Post By: Jason Santo
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And why wouldn’t I start a journal entry some two years after the last with a borrowed title from a TikTok-famous rap track? Truth is, not much has been poppin. Since 2020 was an anguished blur for most of us, it probably isn’t worth recounting. What can be said is that we made it through […]
Read MoreWhen the last thing becomes the only thing
- Post By: Jason Santo
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I started this random site about two-and-a-half years ago to get myself up and running on WordPress again after many, many years of using other CMS solutions. There was interest at my day job in it, so I fired up an instance and wrote a couple entries, focusing more on moving old material from various […]
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