Sunday, November 15, 2020

 Hello fellow writers,

I'm Justin (he/him/his). I first met Mark when taking Social Justice at SLU back in the mid 2000s and I deeply enjoyed a few writing classes he led since then. I'm from Cincinnati originally, but mostly I've lived as an adult in St. Louis. I practice (or just dabble!) as a poet, bicycler, and acoustic guitarist. I also listen to music A LOT. 

I spend a little less than a third of my life working for the L'Arche St. Louis community (L'Arche is a network/movement of intentional communities where people of varying abilities share life together, striving for a world where all belong. I do more back end operations work for the community at present, but I love L'Arche locally and globally and have lived in L'Arche homes around the US and a year in Mexico. 

Here are a couple of my favorite L'Arche-inspired videos - these are about Musa from L'Arche Kenya: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OZN-Mjon90. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ST39z3tCvM.

And a more recent video specific to L'Arche in St. Louis: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0o0hhab-c

Looking forward to learning more about you all!


Halloween 2019 with my friend Sarah

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3 comments:

  1. Mark ChmielNovember 16, 2020 at 9:26 AM

    Justin, feel free to share some of your poems over the next several weeks!

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  2. Sarah BNovember 16, 2020 at 6:10 PM

    Thanks for sharing the St. Louis L'Arche video. I hope to hear more about your experiences in those communities.

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  3. Annie C.November 17, 2020 at 5:51 PM

    L'Arche is such a cool organization!

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