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Dale Keiger

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Essayist, photographer, walker, ciotóg. Creator of The Joggled Mind newsletter, which you can subscribe to at https://teapawt.net/t.co/gmz30QBonf.

 Baltimore MD and Washington DC
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Elegy for a dear departed friend. dalekeiger.net/elegy-for-a-f…
Elegy for a friend

Elegy for a friend

Twenty-six years at Johns Hopkins University left me with profound regard for the human mind’s powers of comprehension. We can comprehend the size of planets orbiting distant stars. We comprehend how...

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Words. Images. Zipped straight into your inbox free of charge. No postage required. From a writer once described by an English blogger as "the thinking woman's crumpet." Well, now. dalekeiger.net/
The Joggled Mind

The Joggled Mind

Do you read? Do you think? Let acclaimed essayist Dale Keiger joggle your mind.

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Yet I soldier on, scribble scribble scribble, and I do it all for you, faithful and beloved reader. I require no thanks. Though I do love Tim Hortons doughnuts. Just sayin'. 2/2
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Every year, this is a rough week for me. Tomorrow morning I will learn that, yet again, I have been passed over for a MacArthur Fellowship. Thursday morning I will learn that, yet again, I've been passed over for the Nobel in literature. ½
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I keep taking pictures of people I don't know while they're reading. dalekeiger.net/reading-in-pu…

The reading public reading in public

May not be suitable for all ages. Includes graphic images of people engaging with print matter. I was a constant reader from age 6. My father, after the death of my mother, assembled all the pictures...

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Can't afford to shoot glaciers and polar bears every day. dalekeiger.net/introverted-s…
Introverted, socially awkward man attempts street photography

Introverted, socially awkward man attempts street photography

Includes images of musicians, a street chef, and some complicated pants My preferred subjects, as a photographer, have been landscapes, horses, birds, my cats, and lately ice and rocks and polar...

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The curators of the 1x online gallery have listed my image "Art Lover" their awarded status; they say only 1 percent of submissions are so recognized. This is the fourth image of mine that they've selected, which plumps my feathers a bit. url4449.1x.com/ls/click?upn=…
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Strunk & White? Maybe not dalekeiger.net/when-youre-do…
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Rereading Asimov's Foundation novels for nostalgia. Rough going. I wrote better when I was 14. Which is about when I read them the first time.
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Wagner Group: A lot of pissed-off fighters with a shitload of guns who fight way better than the Russian army. This should be fun.
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Oh, come on, CNN, name one...
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I have disdained authority since I was 11. Yet every day I stand when my Apple watch tells me to. Weird.
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Made it through 13 minutes of the Republican "debate" before bailing out. What a collection of venal amoral craphounds. I bet none of them reads for pleasure.
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It's 6:59 am and I've had my first genuine laughoutloud.
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When the Diet Coke runs out…
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My latest piece for the fine people at Nieman Storyboard, a critical appreciation of @sallyjenkinswa1 superb feature on the Chris Evert - Martina Navratilova friendship: niemanstoryboard.org/stories…

A profile of rival athletic greats becomes an exploration of a great friendship - Nieman Storyboard

Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins aces an off-court story about Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, competition, cancer, battles and bonds

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Reconciling with age, enjoying the good stuff, but wondering: Is the skin on my neck actually growing? dalekeiger.net/so-maybe-i-wo…
Okay, so maybe I won’t win the Booker

Okay, so maybe I won’t win the Booker

Or, where did this skin on my neck come from? There is a sentence that keeps sneaking into my mind: I wonder if I’ll live to see that? Do not be alarmed or cheered by the possibility that my life’s...

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So thought he could improve on Dante? Guess... If you'd like more such cultural arrogance, subscribe to The Joggled Mind. Free, easy, and more fun than flossing. dalekeiger.net/untitled-2/
Dante’s nine circles of hell, updated

Dante’s nine circles of hell, updated

Dr Essai has been brooding on an update to the esteemed poet’s nine circles of hell. The result may be less than a foundation for epic verse, but at least he feels better.

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Yes, actually, I did know Jerry Springer. dalekeiger.net/jerryspringer…
I have known some baffling people. Then there’s Jerry Springer.

I have known some baffling people. Then there’s Jerry Springer.

Life is a long strange trip. I have never understood the mayor-turned-sleazemeister and I never will.

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Remembering Mark Strand and thinking about writing yet another piece: dalekeiger.net/the-sound-of-…
The sound of one hand packing

The sound of one hand packing

Artists earnestly repeat bromides like “it’s the journey, not the destination,” but an artist’s path needs a destination. Mark Strand once said, “If I knew where I was going I probably wouldn’t go...

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I'm back in Nieman Storyboard. Always great to work with editor Jacqui Banaszynski. @JacquiB niemanstoryboard.org/stories…
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