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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

12 Tuesday Jul 2016

Posted by johnjernigan in Movies, My Heart, Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

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I have never had a movie make me this emotional, I am bawling like a baby…please everyone watch this documentary tonight or as soon as possible! I really feel it was a bit life changing for me.

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A 1st Grader’s Lovely Poem

01 Thursday May 2014

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A 1st Grader's Lovely Poem

This poem was spotted in a New York City public school on the Lower East Side by photographer Jason Gardner. The school had received a small grant for Gardner to take portraits of families that might not otherwise have the means to do so. While waiting for one family to set up, this poem, penned by a first grader in the after school program, caught his eye, especially that last line — in a crowded city like New York, you cannot underestimate the value of personal space. He took a picture, shared it on Facebook and this mysterious child’s poem is being seen around the world. It’s since been circulated on sites like Jezebel and Yahoo, and hailed as the best poem of the month by NPR. NPR’s Studio 360 shared “Creative spelling aside, this young artist clearly has a gift for creating a scene. I think “We made personal space,” is an especially lovely thought – only all the more impressive, coming from a six or seven-year-old.”

“We did the soft wind.

We danst slowly.

We swrld Aroned.

We danst soft.

We lisin to the mozik.

We danst to the mozik.

We made personal space.”

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A Beautiful Wedding Surprise

12 Saturday Apr 2014

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@thejohnjernigan, beauty, culture, dating, Father Ray Kelly, gay, Hallelujah, inspirational, Leonard Cohen, LGBT, love, Matthew Schuler, music, queer, relationships, sex, Steven Chicurel, The Voice, weddings

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Shadow Dancing, to make Simon Cowell cry

06 Thursday Mar 2014

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This is one of the dance troupe member’s story, the loss of his mother

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A Murmuration

22 Wednesday Jan 2014

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A collection of starlings

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The Mother and Child Bond

29 Tuesday Oct 2013

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Baby cried, and I cried a little watching her, so beautiful

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The Gay Road Less Traveled

A friend of mine who used to be one of the hard working under appreciated social workers for the State here in Pensacola has written a book now available on Kindle, John Jernigan’s “The Gay Road Less Traveled.” I purchased it tonight to start it, couldn’t out it down, it was so funny. Graphic, real, and hysterical, John’s writing is endearing, funny, smart and if you happen to be drinking coffee, it may shoot out of your nose at some point during one of his vignettes. You can read it on Kindle.

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