{"id":2067,"date":"2017-01-04T09:01:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/letter-to-the-editor-hale-and-farewell\/"},"modified":"2017-01-04T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:01:51","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-hale-and-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/letter-to-the-editor-hale-and-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Hale and Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Ave Atque Vale\u2019:  \u201cHale And Farewell\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, \u201cHale\u201d is not a typo.<\/p>\n<p>When Romans parted, the phrase often used was \u201cave atque vale\u201d:  hail and farewell. Sometimes it was offered casually, as a simple goodbye and be well. Other times it was expressed with great formality and pathos, as in Catullus\u2019 famous poem to his brother. In all contexts, it connoted respect to the person and acceptance of life\u2019s road.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in that same spirit today that we say goodbye, and thank you, to Jim Hale and the excellent adventure of his \u201cOn Writing\u201d column in the \u201cCapital City Weekly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Jim\u2019s were the musings of a man not afraid to be himself while trying to help others become themselves. Week after week, he offered his thoughts with modesty, acumen, forthright helpfulness, plain honesty, and incorrigibly good humor. Sometimes it was about how to be a better writer, technical or otherwise, while at other times it was simply an unmitigated invitation to explore, whether a subject matter or oneself. Here and there, too, what he came across with was pure enjoyment and invention, aimed at anyone who loved writing or who frankly just happened to be listening.<\/p>\n<p>In all cases, it was Jim unadorned \u2014 folksy, technical, insightful, instructive, conspiratorial, funny, supportive, moral, always helpful, always exhortative, always immoderately enthused about writing and the magic it can bring to, or extract from, the soul. Whether writing for your job, your spouse, your someday adoring public, or simply yourself, Jim was there for one thing and one thing only: to say yes you can, and here\u2019s a way how.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody once said there\u2019s no greater privilege than being in the presence of somebody being themself. This was Jim Hale.<\/p>\n<p>And for that, we say thank you. Ave atque vale, Jim.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Jack Fargnoli, Juneau<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Ave Atque Vale\u2019: \u201cHale And Farewell\u201d No, \u201cHale\u201d is not a typo. When Romans parted, the phrase often used was \u201cave atque vale\u201d: hail and farewell. Sometimes it was offered casually, as a simple goodbye and be well. Other times it was expressed with great formality and pathos, as in Catullus\u2019 famous poem to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}