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Hello

by | Nov 22, 2021 | Greetings

Word cloud of hello in multiple languages

“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

Hello and welcome.
It’s not quite the new year, but this website is a new incarnation for me and I am much looking forward to what happens next. The short version of a longer story is that I’ve been many things professionally (see my About page) and am finally embarking on something I promised myself many years ago that I would do: write. You can’t hear my chuckle as I typed that word—write—as virtually my entire working life has involved writing be it course syllabi, lectures, instructionals, and hundreds of student paper feedback notes; writer and indexer user manuals and technical presentation guides for a major professional and scientific organization and several universities; individual and institutional marketing and promotional materials; guest blogs; much of a writing guide for an online university with attendant syllabi, tutorials, etc.; a number of scholarly book and journal indexes; and a thesaurus or two.

To quote my favorite author, Ursula K. Le Guin, words are my matter. But so too is the imagination that grounds the making of words, the making that fosters imagination, and the fascination with people and things that gives impetus to it all.

Finally, having paid my professional dues, I get to pay something else—pay the universe back, if you will—and tell the stories that have percolated within for years and, in one instance, decades. No longer an anonymous byline, no longer a servant to a necessary master. Now I write for me, and I hope, for you though I do not yet know who the most of you are.

Welcome and again welcome!

 

Storytelling the matter

in a most literal and intimate manner,

now longhand,

now milonguero style.

I lead the gambol.

I beget the tale.

~ Excerpt from my poem, Gambol (2020)

 

 

 

© J.A. Jablonski 2021. All rights reserved.

HOW TO CITE THIS POST

Jablonski, J.A. (2021, Nov 22). Hello. Blog post. J.A. Jablonski (website). https://jajablonski.com/2021/11/22/hello/

IMAGE CREDITS

Header image of night sky and pine trees. | Photo by Ryan Hutton on Unsplash. Colors modified. | Word cloud layer created via WordClouds.com.