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JL Tooker
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Speculative tales, poetic trails, and a soul tuned to resonance.
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background is a yellow orange sunset lowering into a shadowed mound on which there are dancers and drummers in black silhouette, overlaid with the statement: Good writing is in the rhythm, not in the rules - Julia Cameron sentiment.
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Happy WHIMSday! The Muse has a case of Post-Plot Stress Disorder ... read.jltooker.com to catch up with the Muse and her antics.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Censored Feedback?
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He wrote: “Your need to understand her … your need to be right.” I wanted to comment: “How perfectly contradictory ... no genuine desire for truth ..."

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Monetization or a new form of silence?
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I made up a language. It started talking back.

Read my series of essays--Crafting the Whale's Tongue--on Substack: read.jltooker.com/p/why-invent...
Why Invent a Language?
Essay One in a new series: Crafting the Whale's Tongue
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October 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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November approaches! Get your WordNerd on!

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October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Muse admits herself to Creative Disorders Clinic!

Get your Whimsy now!
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October 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Sometimes the first act of healing
is admitting the thing you fear has a name.

read.jltooker.com/p/aloud-acco...

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October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Phaiku No. 16 - Luddites

new technology
exploitation mania
who’s afraid of whom?

get the full story at: read.jltooker.com/p/phaiku-no-...

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Phaiku No. 16
Luddites
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October 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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What does 'Luddite' mean to you?
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October 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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A selection from my first book of poems ...
read more at read,jltooker.com
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October 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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It's time for Wednesday's Whimsy!
Check out all the issues you missed on Wander Words by JL Tooker at Substack: read.jltooker.com
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A faux newspaper article describing the return of the missing Muse and her road to recovery with two images of a silhouetted female writing at a desk be a window filtering blue light and the other of her standing among books and contemplating a feathered quill.
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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One of my mantras ...
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The words, "Write it true first, make it beautiful later ..." by JL Tooker, on a brilliant orange background above a purple silhouette of someone journaling.
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Diane Keaton - totally my favorite actor; undoubtedly a beautiful soul. I will miss her way too much.
A photograph of actress Diane Keaton
October 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Half asleep, I broke the word “philosophy” apart until it breathed again. A poem about becoming the question, not the answer. open.substack.com/pub/wanderwo...
philo: a waking spell
On becoming the question that wears your name.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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On slowing down and tending the soil of the soul ...
If your hands can’t reach the earth today, let them reach for your dreams instead.
Old manual typewriter on a picnic blanket in a field of lavender, with a journal and pages floating about - a writer's garden
October 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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“The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.” — Jane Goodall 🌍💚

Honoring a life that taught us how to listen, and how to care.
A photo of Jane Goodall standing in front of hydrangeas. She was a voice for all who could not speak.
October 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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The world has become so loud that silence itself can feel deafening. But silence is not absence—it is space.
Without that space for reflection, words risk being released
before they are truly thought, and those unconsidered words
can wound more deeply than silence ever could.

~ JL Tooker
September 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM