Joejohn Black
May 7, 2023

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You continue to hone the vital skill of surviving the unknown through exploration. Most humans do their damnest to avoid growing in that regard. I salute your diligence. It makes for a highly creative path. I'll be 70 this year, and I'll retire. My lifestyle is more transient than most Americans. Change is never an issue but I recognize (for better or worse) my need to be tethered to something. Simple self-esteem is enough but as I've gotten older I've taken on baggage, perhaps too much attention attached to discerning an unimagined future. After all, I know I live in a socioeconomic system that devours old and young as a result of greed or upon any given tragedy. Only a figurative handful are safe from that probability. I'm feeling a need to cut some ties to prediction, downsize to better focus on the present.

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Joejohn Black
Joejohn Black

Written by Joejohn Black

Now dissecting thoughts and emotions, pinning words, then commentary to the facets, curating and sharing them as legends of my being. Then they’re on their own.

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