
Named after my pioneering 1994 travel blog, Big World will introduce you to fascinating people immersed in the arts and sciences, and reflect on the personal challenges introduced by my new traveling companion: Parkinson's Disease.
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It has been two years and one day since I launched this Substack — with the now odd-sounding name of “Jeffji’s Big World” — and I thought I’d celebrate by doing something that I have not yet done: give myself a week off!
But then my belove...
Impro book cover photo © John Haynes, all rights reserved
In his seminal book Impro: Improvisation and the Theater, performer and teacher Keith Johnstone makes this observation:
“There are people who prefer to say ‘Yes’, and there are p...
from a Yayoi Kasuma exhibit in Los Angeles - Photo by Mike Von / Unsplash
Before I distract you with the perils and pratfalls of Parkinson’s, I want to make you aware of a wonderful video interview that was recently conducted with me by S...
Note: how do you illustrate a piece like this? I asked Anthropic’s Claude to try, but after innumerable prompts I was not even remotely satisfied. But Substack posts beg for visuals, so I’m using a series of random images that my friend Ell...
Mosque interior in Shiraz, Iran / Photo by Shino Nakamura, on Unsplash
My previous post (Everything Must Go) wasn’t super popular – at least if you go by the “heart” count — and I think I know why. Maybe I’ve been focusing too much on jour...
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I'm an Oakland, CA-based photojournalist, author, and sometime stage performer. My seven books include Shopping for Buddhas, The Size of the World, and 108 Beloved Objects.
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