Jeremy C Kester

Jeremy C Kester

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  • Novels
    • The Good Teacher
    • Remember the Yorktown (Gravity 1)
    • The Dangerous Life of Agnes Pyle
  • short stories
    • Into Fire’s Den
    • Farm Life Lost
  • PoemsPoems by Jeremy C Kester
    • Change of Seasons: Selected Poems
    • varied degrees of darkness: selected poems
  • Not Others

    There are plenty to be distracted by. But they are distractions. They are the acts and behaviors of others. Other people. People who are not ourselves. This isn’t in a grand sense; this is in an interpersonal sense. There is the “I” and then there is the “others”, those who are not the “I”. Yet…

    Jeremy C Kester

    February 26, 2021
    Blog
    life, philosophy, self-reflection, stoic, stoic philosophy, stoicism
  • The Tower

    Ancient wisdom is not to be dismissed. It often appears that those in ancient times understood far more about human nature than we do today. With our modern focus on data and information, thinking that people are simply biological machines, we seem to miss the knowledge that had already been gained centuries upon centuries before.…

    Jeremy C Kester

    February 25, 2021
    Blog
    ancient stories, Carl Jung, conformity, Holy Bible, Jordan B Peterson, religion, tower of babel
  • Progress – 2-24-2021 Edition

    Two days. That was all that I’ve missed in a little over two months. Even still, those two days were (not) planned. My family had to make a special trip into Philadelphia, which since it is cheaper to drive (albeit much longer time-wise), that is what we did. The trip to and the trip back…

    Jeremy C Kester

    February 24, 2021
    Blog
    independent writing, process, writer, writerslife, writing, writing process, writinglife
  • What Story…

    It is a simple question, right? What is the story that we are telling ourselves? As we operate through the day, as we interact with the world, as it acts upon us or vice versa, what story are we telling about it? While it might feel like a funny way of looking at it, but…

    Jeremy C Kester

    February 23, 2021
    Blog
    Epictetus, life, life lessons, philosophy, stoic, stoic philosophy, stoicism, story telling
  • Distracted Focus

    An interesting concept came up the other day. It involved the idea of daydreaming about the future and waiting for things to happen. In this case, it was discussing the idea that happiness didn’t have to wait for the terms of such things of, “I’ll be happy when I get a new house,” or “I’ll…

    Jeremy C Kester

    February 22, 2021
    Blog
    stoic, stoicism, writerslife, writing, writing process, writing struggle
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