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Craig "The GratiDude" Jones
Craig "The GratiDude" Jones

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Apr 10, 2022

If Everyone In America Could Hold A Talking Stick, What Would You Say?

I’ve been having this crazy-ass fantasy these last few pandemic months. I was imagining how the entire nation might undergo a massive debrief, all at once, with all of us standing in a huge circle stretching coast to coast with a facilitator asking us questions to get us thinking. We’d…

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·Apr 1, 2021

Thumbs Up For Our Rite To Bare Arms

“It’s about solidarity,” we agreed , while waiting the requisite fifteen minutes after my second shot, last week. The Latino man in the next chair (probably a boomer, like us, though hard to tell for sure with a mask) gave us a thumbs up and we responded in kind. In…

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Thumbs Up For Our Rite To Bare Arms
Thumbs Up For Our Rite To Bare Arms
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·Mar 29, 2021

Lessons From an Octopus’s Garden

The other night, we were clicking through Netflix movie offerings, trying to figure out which one we were in the mood for. We checked a couple out. “Too stupid,” we thought, or “not in the mood for that,” continuing to scroll until we came to this quirky little title called…

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Lessons From an Octopus’s Garden
Lessons From an Octopus’s Garden
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·Mar 25, 2021

Yay, Me and Yay, You For Showing Up Today

Today I’m sick of this journal, of publishing the blog, of being The GratiDUDE, of looking for beauty in the muddy March earth and dried up dog turds, of this fucking pandemic, of wearing masks, of going to work, of making coffee, of all this morning crap, of all the…

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Yay, Me and Yay, You For Showing Up Today
Yay, Me and Yay, You For Showing Up Today
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·Mar 22, 2021

Meditation On the Ghost in My Machine

Sitting here, I can feel the bass beat of my heart, the constant percussion, solid and strong. It’s reassuring, for sure, and somehow also fragile. I can’t see it or directly take care of it or take it in my hands and comfort it or put a Band-Aid on it…

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Meditation On the Ghost in My Machine
Meditation On the Ghost in My Machine
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·Mar 18, 2021

When You See Nothing But Taillights

Writing in Medium, where Susan Orlean also publishes regular pieces, is a bit like milling around before a marathon, cheek by jowl with elite runners. You get to be in the same race, even though when the gun goes off, you see nothing but tail lights and figuratively eat their…

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When You See Nothing But Taillights
When You See Nothing But Taillights
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·Mar 15, 2021

A Terrible Beauty Has Been Born

Nineteen frosty outside, according to my mobile device, and not likely to go much higher than that. It’s now lighter at the end of the day, and darker to begin it, but the dark edges are being ineluctably pushed back by unstoppable forces. There’s no pulling it back and the…

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A Terrible Beauty Has Been Born
A Terrible Beauty Has Been Born
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·Mar 11, 2021

Years That Ask Questions and Years That Answer

One year ago yesterday the governor declared a state of emergency here in the Commonwealth and one year ago today the WHO first cried “pandemic” from the rooftop. It is anniversary season now, the first birthday of this worldwide mess. …

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Years That Ask Questions and Years That Answer
Years That Ask Questions and Years That Answer
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·Mar 8, 2021

A Storm Is Threatening My Very Life Today

I must have watched it a dozen times the last two days. Maybe fifteen. Maybe more, because that’s the way we roll in this house. “If some is good, more is better” is one of the sacred tenets of our marriage. I’m talking about the recording on YouTube of the…

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A Storm Is Threatening My Very Life Today
A Storm Is Threatening My Very Life Today
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·Mar 4, 2021

These Last Minutes of Winter All Count, Too

There’s not usually much alignment or coherence between what I write in my daily journal and these bi-weekly blog posts. The latter I polish up, making sure they’re sanded and the corners are all level. I’m getting used to just pressing send twice a week whether it’s “perfect” or not…

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These Last Minutes of Winter All Count, Too
These Last Minutes of Winter All Count, Too
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Craig "The GratiDude" Jones

Craig "The GratiDude" Jones

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