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  • 2 weeks ago | tinnitist.com | Serge Bielanko

    jawn /jôn/ noun – (chiefly in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area) used to refer to a thing, place, person, or event that one need not or cannot give a specific name to. Jawn is a neutral, all-purpose noun used to reference any person, place, situation, or object. In casual conversation, it takes the place of the word ‘thing’.

  • 2 weeks ago | sergebielanko.substack.com | Serge Bielanko

    It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. - Anne Sexton_____jawn one. Maybe it’s because I ended up without a dad of my own that I became a keen observer of other people’s dads. It’s a thing that continues to this day. My favorite is spotting older men with their grown up sons and daughters. I sit on my car bumper at the flea market sometimes and seek them out with my eyes and my brain.

  • 3 weeks ago | tinnitist.com | Serge Bielanko

    jawn /jôn/ noun – (chiefly in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area) used to refer to a thing, place, person, or event that one need not or cannot give a specific name to. Jawn is a neutral, all-purpose noun used to reference any person, place, situation, or object. In casual conversation, it takes the place of the word ‘thing’.

  • 3 weeks ago | sergebielanko.substack.com | Serge Bielanko

    If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. - Leo Tolstoy_____jawn one. I saw a watersnake looking at me. He was small, but he was still and staring right at me. That alone was enough to change my day.

  • 4 weeks ago | tinnitist.com | Serge Bielanko

    “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”— Diane ArbusWe did a tour. It was long ago now, before I had three kids. I had two then. And in the picture I have from the day we were leaving, they are in my arms, sagging in my grasp. It is a photo I hadn’t seen in such a while that I had forgotten it existed. With photographs you either are looking at them or you aren’t. And if you aren’t, then the memory is probably faded or even gone.