Jeff Wells

[zangtang]

Russell Hoban ? - complete guess

[MacCruiskeen]

No, Alan Garner (Strandloper and Thursbitch). A highly intuitive writer and a very rigorous one.

[Luther Blissett]

I think he's enjoying being a dad and not staring into the abyss. His Facebook is cheerful, funny and politically engaged... he's just not going DEEP like he used to.

That makes a lot of sense. I became a dad eight years ago and I had to stop reading the RI blog for awhile. I kept checking back, but I couldn't read as deep as I had. There came a point where I told myself that I could spend my hours focusing on what was right in front of me, the reality that I had some control over, or I could keep staring out at the abyss and my own little world wither.

It's sort of funny that I only started reading the forums and posting again last year when my own little world DID wither a little bit with the violent death of a close family member. If I was paranoid about things like gang-stalking back in the day . . . oh boy.

My experience as a Dad is that now my son is 13 and he has access to the Internet, he's started asking me a TON of questions about the sorts of things we talk about here! How to answer him truthfully without being completely fatalistic?? (It must be genetic, how interested he is in this stuff)

Some of the experiences Jeff describes about his son on FB -- that kid is bright!! Like scary bright. Figures though, right?

Part nature, part nurture. You have both there and you come across as one of the farthest left here to me, saying things I sometimes feel. I'm not really surprised that your kids would take after that.

I really think humanism is a natural state but that money and power corrode this — and that all it takes is just a bit of sway to pull back the curtain, be that from a parent, family member, teacher, friend, etc.

[brekin]

Didn't Jeff move to New York with Hugh, or something? Maybe they are still settling in.

Let's check in with them on the R.I.-cam.

[JackRiddler]

The hilarity is that a bunch of us hear from Jeff every day on Facebook. Maybe he's just not that into you guys?

[Joao]

The hilarity is that a bunch of us hear from Jeff every day on Facebook. Maybe he's just not that into you guys?

Exeunt all except BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

[zangtang]

ow!, & now i'm all deepwethed.

[Laodicean]

You heard us calling, me especially. Welcome back.

The thing is, Jeff Wells comes back everyday (last visited date stamp).

[Laodicean]

The hilarity is that a bunch of us hear from Jeff every day on Facebook. Maybe he's just not that into you guys?

On FaceFuckBook? In that case, you guys have fun. And good fucking riddance.

[82_28]

I could conceivably log into facebook with my fake account. I am "friends" with Jeff there and have read a bunch of stuff but I hate facebook so rarely log in. I think the concern of the OP was just missing his "magical" long form stuff.

[JackRiddler]

I was jokingly replying to the nonsense along the lines of "he's disappeared mysteriously," "he's betrayed us," etc.

Loved the one about RI as listening post for the intel com, however. As if they'd need this for that!

[Laodicean]

I was jokingly replying to the nonsense along the lines of "he's disappeared mysteriously," "he's betrayed us," etc.

Loved the one about RI as listening post for the intel com, however. As if they'd need this for that!

Weak sauce served with McNuggets. Riddle riddle, riddle me little.

[Laodicean]

it’s the one thing he had learned, through the living of an itinerant life. that change is constant, and that few things in this world should last for ever.

perhaps the most perishable of all his possessions had been people. tears lept to his eyes for that moment in which he felt the gravity of all the companions he had discovered in his journey. some fellow travelers, some stationary avatars with arms pointing in conflicted directions; human beings, all. somehow placed in his path so that he would learn more deeply of the ways of this mortal coil. or just of his own.

when he was young, it was his nature to drink them in. to desire the deepest kind of communion from each one. but the more he became dependent on them, the more destructive and painful was the inevitable act of their divorce. of his goodbye. because, it seemed, that was the one thing that he could depend on. being pulled back out into the river, by some force or another, over which he never had very much control.

and when he realized this… that his path was essentially one of solitude, then these ritualized bonding experiences took on a new form. he learned to maintain his separation from the others, but without harnessing the love and communion he naturally desired to share with them. it was all for the moment. unconditional. he simply did not know how long it would last, and so lived each encounter as if it would be his last. and in that way, relationships became more honest. they could not fall into the false dependencies and expectations that are so often the death of things. when people become too accustomed to each other. taking friends for granted… feeling ownership over parts of them. these are the dead parts of human bonding, which inevitably lead to the lowest forms, the basest causeways… and give way to gossip, backstabbing, and false promises.

he had experienced too much of this kind of cowardice. and yet he had also learned, the hard way, that his truest friends were the ones who needed him least. so powerful and unique were they in their own journeys, that when they asked for help, or he for theirs, it was natural, immediate. and without conditions or regrets.

to him, this was the essence of immortality.

[Laodicean]

Might as well the thread right here. Rather post on Facebook....the disrespect to this board. Wow.

[chump]

Maybe Youtube??