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Joseph Fasano
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Writer, Teacher | helping people write and be heard | Founder, Fasano Academy, educating the whole human being
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · Dec 3
I will never, ever get over this.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 3h
*perfect* (found in a 1966 issue of The Virginia Methodist Advocate)
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 17h
Thank you.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 18h
my forthcoming book about a father, a child, and what to do when we think the world is ending
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 21h
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 21h
This is the single best thing anyone could ever send to a writer. I'm holding back tears.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 2d
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 4d
How does the writer bear witness in dark times? What can words do in the face of tyranny? Where is the place for the human imagination in a time of AI? What can we do with the ancient practices of art and philosophy?

11/9, 1 PM Eastern. Let the human voice speak.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 4d
All are welcome to join this communal discussion led by poet and professor Joseph Fasano on November 9. To register, email [email protected].
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 5d
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 5d
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 5d
I hope this reaches you.
To a Life in Despair Don't. Don't go to the bridge. Don't wake in your coat in the morning light and carry those stones into the river. Don't find your father's pistol in the attic, hidden in the family albums. Don't. Don't pour the pills into the whiskey, the walls dissolving like your childhood. Don't, just don't choose not to wake. Stay. Just stay. Tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow. You can always walk alone into the darkness. But not yet. Not yet. Not this soon. I don't have a reason to give you. All I have is the morning, and the autumn wind, and the child you once were in the darkness, looking at the new moon through the ruins, saying save me, save me, save me, and the moon looking back with her vacant face saying I promise, I stone- cold promise that the face of utter hopelessness is the face of something just about to change. —Joseph Fasano
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 7d
There should be a "not interested because this is AI" button so the algorithm can learn how much humans don't want that stuff.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 7d
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 7d
My Grandma Fasano has left this world. If you're Italian, you know that means there will never be that particular kind of love, that Sunday feast again.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 7d
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 9d
translation by Gregory Hays
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 9d
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 9:
And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 10d
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 10d
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Note Left by Humanity in the Ruins after Heaney Sometimes we gave water to our neighbors. Sometimes we didn't hunt each other. Sometimes our fathers weren't broken and told to kiss their homes that would be stolen. Sometimes there was bread and wine on the tables and sometimes we remembered there was no such thing as someone else's mother; there was no such thing as someone else's child. Sometimes there were hearts that we could hear. Listen. We forgot that we could listen. Sometimes, when the fires died, it was dark enough. We walked out and we looked up and we saw it: the starlight, the starlight that had made us. Sometimes no one lay in any rubble with seven braids in her hair— a braid for every year she'd had. A braid for every year. —Joseph Fasano
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 10d
This poem.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 12d
for anyone in the darkness
To a Life in Despair Don't. Don't go to the bridge. Don't wake in your coat in the morning light and carry those stones into the river. Don't find your father's pistol in the attic, hidden in the family albums. Don't. Don't pour the pills into the whiskey, the walls dissolving like your childhood. Don't, just don't choose not to wake. Stay. Just stay. Tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow. You can always walk alone into the darkness. But not yet. Not yet. Not this soon. I don't have a reason to give you. All I have is the morning, and the autumn wind, and the child you once were in the darkness, looking at the new moon through the ruins, saying save me, save me, save me, and the moon looking back with her vacant face saying I promise, I stone- cold promise that the face of utter hopelessness is the face of something just about to change. —Joseph Fasano
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 11d
please read this
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 11d
Yes.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 11d
From this fact we can infer who has a vested interest in what is and isn't taught.
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