Tag: independent writing
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Obsessive Thoughts
a poem How does one turnObsession into disgustIf that obsessionDrags you into shit?Making you believeit does somethingDifferent than thatHow can one part waysWith a bad habit?When discomfort and fearBeckon for it to comeSo they might hide from youOr rather, so you mightHide from themCan you change itInto simple boredom?And choose a challenge instead?How can one…
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Ease of Difficulty
a poem Why aren’t good habits easy?And bad habits hard?Why must that path make us suffer so,In trying to do well for the world?As if doing good is to be punishedShoved away like a diseaseBecause it is too difficult to bearAnd yet I remember lifeHow the root of the tree breaks rockHow life must fight…
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Course Corrections
This site has seen a lot of my going back and forth, changing my mind and goals with the regularity of how often one is supposed to change their underwear (Daily, ladies and gentlemen — at least). And here I go again. I will keep trying and trying and trying. It will be an honest…
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Substack
Update: 2/10/2025: Experiments are ongoing for everything. I am actually going to be doing everything on both my new Substack AND this site. It’ll be a little bit more work to manage both, but it makes more sense. And there will be more content that will be “free” or general release. This has been on…
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Icky Sticky
I am terrible at this marketing, sales thing. The idea of telling others about something I like is unwieldy at best. More accurate is I don’t like doing it. No, wait — it’s the idea of telling somebody about the thing that is my own rather than something else I love that bugs me. Why…
Jeremy C Kester 