Hi. I’m Junia

…or June, or Juni, or Junebug. I’m either a basic suburban hockey mom or a sign of the end times, depending on who you ask.

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“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”

- Albert Camus

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I am a woman because I do womanhood.

By Junia Joplin “To be fully alive is to act... I understand action to be any way that we can co-create reality with other beings and the Sp

A piece I wrote earlier this year, picked up by the wonderful folks at Women of Influence…

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Second hockey in another 5 hockey weekend 🥅

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11 inch Cherry and Maple block tone rim w/ fretless slothead flamed maple neck with brushed metal slide plate on Rosewood fretboard. Star inlay, Dobson style heel and strung with Nyl-Gut stings. Great light weight fretless openback banjo.

Custom built by Jeremy Rushing at Backwoods Banjos in Mississippi. Contact info: [email protected]

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One of the unexpected musical pleasures of 2013 came when I acquired this banjo (via eBay, of all places). I've received numerous compliments on the sound, feel, and look - especially the flame maple neck. It's a blast to play...

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It is far easier to honor the dead than to follow the living, and so we take the dead to our bosoms, for there they can no longer do any harm; and we can translate a living, breathing, both noble and fallible human being into a heroic impotence, satisfying our need to both admire and be protected from something larger than ourselves

Peter J. Gomes, "The Ambiguity of Heroes," from his book of Sermons (Harper San Francisco, 1998) p. 47