Tag Archives: life

Seek Out The Glorious

Posted on May 8, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

It has been a rough year, to say the least. Disease and ‘isolation’, those “premodern idea(s) of quarantines, closures, and measured lockdowns.” A way of thinking that is “not just premodern; (instead) turning the logic of modern medicine on its … Continue reading →

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The Mountains

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

I am haunted by mountains, ancient and immutable, unconquerable and mysterious fortresses to the past. Sinews and muscles attached to bone, enveloped by a thin layer of skin, ripping upon contact with a rose thorn or bramble; that is not … Continue reading →

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My View From the “Back Row”…

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

“It is often revealing, and fun—for the same reason I think that I love to watch Bobo hunting Bigfoot (spoiler alert, in this metaphor I think I’m Bigfoot. And yes, I do exist. I know, takes some of the fun … Continue reading →

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Ours Are Not the Children of the Nobles

Posted on November 17, 2018 by Joel D. Hirst

After a long hot day in Africa fighting the anarchy that came – heralding our arriving ordeal, an ordeal which is only just beginning – I sometimes sit down on my sofa wine-glass in hand, a silky red imported from … Continue reading →

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Our Rolling Road of Wonder

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Joel D. Hirst

I grew up in the haunted northern valleys of Argentina’s Andes mountains. Snuggled up against Chile’s Atacama and Bolivia’s Altiplano, for those who can make the trek and brave the 20,000 foot peaks and passes is an escarpment, a quebrada, … Continue reading →

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2017 – And America’s “Age of Misery”

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

The bombings started in the cold of the Texas winter. The rebels had quickly come to terms with the reality that they could not hold and keep land; and they turned instead to terror. Strapping bombs on little girls – … Continue reading →

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The Destitution of the ‘Noble Nobels’

Posted on December 19, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

“I always hope, in fact, that my interlocutor will be a policeman and that he will arrest me for the theft of ‘The Just Judges’.” So said Albert Camus in his simple short novel “The Fall”. The theft of the … Continue reading →

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Our Disappointing Online Agora

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

I’ve given up on Facebook. And Twitter. I never LinkedIn – wasn’t sure what I was supposed to be linking to; nobody that I know has ever found anything worth finding by connecting with other ‘professionals’ desperately trolling social media … Continue reading →

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The Recipe for Revolution

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

I lived and worked for seven years inside Hugo Chavez’s revolutionary Venezuela. Mostly during the times when it still had energy and purpose and when the revolution was still exciting; to the committees and clubs and marchers and voters but … Continue reading →

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Accra, and the Future

Posted on February 11, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

Mine is not a travel blog. Though I travel all the time, the places I go and the situations I encounter don’t fit the “wine and cheese” feel-good stories that make travel blogs so cathartic. Castles in Europe; deep wide … Continue reading →

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