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Through the Gateway

John Van Dalen

Exploring the dimensions of the personal essay

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Home is that place which encompasses our most deeply cherished “terrain of the heart”

Part 2

Someone once described my writings here as “a Journal of Place”, and I couldn’t have been more pleased with the description. It perfectly captures an essential aspect my online journal writing for almost 30 years — an evocation,...

29 hours ago

There’s no place like home, when you find it at last

Part 1 of 3

….How many things can you go away from?…Take the shortest way round and stay at home…Here, of course, is all that you love, all that you expect, all that you are…Foolish people imagine that what they imagine is somewhere el...

4 days ago

Homelessness and its consequences for individuals and society

Part 1
(From the Memory Vault, an online journal entry from January 13, 1999)

There it was in yesterday’s paper, in the middle of the “B” section: a follow-up story with photos on the fire that killed three homeless men in an abandon...

7 days ago
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Autumn is forever

Know’st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the heart feels a languid grief
Laid on it for a covering,
And how sleep seems a goodly thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Season of mists and mellow...

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The Internet then and now, Part 2: The not-so-alien-anymore world of AI

(See the previous entry from 2001.)

Despite my over-indulgence of the Internet via my phone, including “doom scrolling,” I’ve never lost the desire to frequently look up into the sky and ponder many things and let my thoughts wander an...

14 days ago

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    Former teacher, newspaper writer and editor, and reference librarian. Passionate about landscape and vernacular photography. Observer and writer about life and it’s limitless possibilities.

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