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Joel Klepac

Story Sanctum Call for Submissions 2024

If you haven’t encountered Story Sanctum yet, check out some of our work at https://www.storysanctum.org/. Check out our submission…

3 min readJan 18, 2024

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Story Sanctum Call for Submissions 2024

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Joel Klepac

An Invitation to Self-Discovery through the Art of Georges Rouault

Miserere Mei: A Journey of Self-Discovery through the Art of Georges Rouault. Joel Klepac 2023.

5 min readDec 14, 2023

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An Invitation to Self-Discovery through the Art of Georges Rouault

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Joel Klepac

Stillness

This image was captured from a train while traveling in northern Romania. I am still unsure of how it happened. Maybe a photographer could…

1 min readJun 8, 2023

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a snow-covered house is visible in the midst of blurred trees

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Joel Klepac

Saguaro in the Palm: Gratitude and the Mindfulness of Death

In the midst of training for a trail race, I traveled to a conference in Phoenix. Thinking of the pain I would be in if I didn’t keep up…

3 min readApr 14, 2023

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Saguaro in the Palm: Gratitude and the Mindfulness of Death

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Joel Klepac

Story Sanctum Publication Looking for Submissions

If you haven’t encountered Story Sanctum yet, check out some of our work at https://www.storysanctum.org/. Check out our submission…

3 min readFeb 10, 2023

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Story Sanctum Publication Looking for Submissions

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Joel Klepac

Photographing New York in Squares

Killing time while in Manhattan I found myself drawn to framing New York in squares. Medium holds some lively conversations around…

2 min readFeb 5, 2023

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Photographing New York in Squares

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Joel Klepac

MoMA and Hadestown: Rothko, Matisse and Anais Mitchell

Arrested by the Dance (1909) by Henri Matisse, I sat and drew it in my 6x6 inch sketchbook. The figures form a wild chain in a distorted…

4 min readNov 22, 2022

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MoMA and Hadestown: Rothko, Matisse and Anais Mitchell

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Joel Klepac

Forget Mental Health, Think Navigation

Mental Health and Mental Hygiene are concepts developed for global and national policy development NOT for clinical therapy. See Roots of…

8 min readJun 24, 2022

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Forget Mental Health, Think Navigation

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Joel Klepac

Beauty is Useless

Resisting the Tyranny of Utility

2 min readJun 4, 2022

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sun coming through clouds with a stand of winter trees in front

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Joel Klepac

Reverence is not Only for the Religious

Plant seeds of justice by moving beyond “wow” into reverence as a way of life.

4 min readMay 27, 2022

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Reverence is not Only for the Religious

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Joel Klepac

Joel Klepac

I find joy and wonder exploring the world through the practices of hiking, providing therapy, drawing, fiddling, encaustic painting, writing, and spirituality.

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