Jay I just came across yr beatifull letter in Liverpool Street, ❤I was smiling and cring at the same time! You are just amaizing ❤thankyou

Will we ever see the beatnik boys together again ?

Jay I have seen your letter in Amsterdam keep on sending letters in Berlin and koln ❤❤love your letters 🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🥳🤞🤞🤞🤞👍👍😃😃😇😇😇you are helping the world by making those beautiful words and letters 👍👍👍🌅🌅

Hi Jay, I saw your letter in Bangor, North Wales. I took a photo and I'm reading it now, in Lille, Northern France. Thank you for your friendship. I extend it to you and to everyone in the Dear Stranger community. Peace to all.

Hi Jay, I read one of your letters in London. Thank you for your inspiration.

Love the video. Cheers from Orlando Florida. Happy to be subscribed

A quick note about the passage you're about to read. I wrote this in my mother tounge, but luckily it isn't too difficult to translate from norwegian to english, although what beauty there was has all but disappeared: Everything has come to a halt. It is as if two birds of prey hovers above me, waiting on me to fall down and expire because they know I'm approacing death. I am supposed start a new job as a teacher. A job I do not want. "That's life" I hear my parents say, everytime I hear those words I can feel a portion of my soul ebb out. You could ask why I'm taking a job I do not want, the truth is that it is the only secure job that fits my limited abilities as a human being. I am tired and have been so for a long time. I often drink alone. I'm lonely and bored. I can hear my parents again, saying "that's life". Why does life have to "be like that"? Do achievable dreams always fail? I don't suffer from megalomania, I don't have such a thing in my blood. Ok, I'll take a job I do not want, but I'm not going to die before I've written literature that soars in the highest heavens with my predecessors, above the vile birds of prey.

I found one of these letters in Scarborough… it’s a really cool project.

Saw one of your letters somewhere in Bristol so took a photo as I was curious. Just reviewing my photos and finally read it so thought I should show my appreciation Nice one

Hi Jay....Do consider to post a monthly video...helps to rejuvenate your subscribers ❤

Been following you for a couple of years now and really adore your Dear Stranger project! Looking forward to spotting one in Germany or Croatia!! Keep up the great work!!! :))

Yours is still up in my city since your visit to Belgium ^^ (they're doing a lot of construction work in that street rn, so who knows for how long it's going to stay ... I'll be on the lookout XD)

I am looking forward to see a letter in my city. (I am from udaipur, rajasthan, India)

Hello Jay!

Paul kind of reminds me of Lou Reed in looks!😯

My life is so uneventful that I'm scared I'll never make anything worth keeping

Bloody hell this is beautiful!

I Found your letter on the Busstop in Antwerp .

I think this is great insight that applies to all sorts of writing. Just tell the story, describe the things that naturally occur within that story, and if your story has legs and your observational prowess is strong enough, the poetry and the articulate nature of the prose should happen by virtue of this rarely had combination of circumstances. Anyways, great video! Subscribed!

These are centuries-old techniques that'll keep your pantry full as a writer. You've also shared some beautiful thoughts. Keep going. Keep up the writing.

Wish I could see your paper letter that you taped to the walls :)) it's a very cool idea.

That bit of you working and vaccinating chickens really made me feel and think a lot of things. But i won't fill with boredom another brittle human like me, hugs.

Hard times create strong people, strong people create good times, good times create weak people and weak people produce shit "art". Not to say we should all suffer terribly but people who haven't overcome something often don't have much to say.

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8:35 Read well and understand information rather than reading more information without understanding much of the content

7:38 Technique to read like a writer

6:42 Amazing Writers

"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time."

Yorkshire is a state of mind

This is your best vlog

I just watched this video on first day back at home in the city after spending three weeks at grandparents' in the countryside. I visit my grandparents every summer and I always get a little melancholic first few days when I go back to the city, I really miss the peace and nature of the countryside. But today I went to the city center and walked around a bit, I always try to spot interesting architectual elements on buildings that I haven't seen before and I did so today. And so far I haven't felt melancholy, I think looking at the place you live with fresh eyes does the trick. And even though I'm more of a countryside person and I wish I grew up there like my parents, I have to notice the that living in the city has so many privileges but is also great for people watching and I can appreciate the fact that many artists (that includes painters, writers and singers) lived in the city where I grew up (its the capital of my country). I think that every place has its benefits but you just have to notice them when they're easily forgotten. While in the city alone I would act as a tourist for myself and it is so fun, you can visit museums, buy some special food or just look at everything as it is your first glance. I'm really glad you made a video on this, and even though it is about life in the country, because it reminds me that you can always grow, even at your hometown.

This is the kind of content I subscribed this channel for...

Do you leave your ‘dear stranger’ letters in Yorkshire?

Always great to see your life in Yorkshire mate! I’ll have to come up when travel is feasible!

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I was thinking about rewriting my life, but it's too dreadful to scrounge up the past that had so many pain, wounds, and sins. Especially in my failure moments, in my college life, in a new city. In a believable story, if I keep following the trail, I would find my bright future there; graduate on time, straight A's, get a job after and make a salary to make your family proud. And smooth reality showed me his true face, harder and rough, when I thought I was right, it turned out to be a bunch of ball shacks. It's like, somebody gave a beautiful wrapped candy, with sweet promises inside, revealed, it's just a shitty candy. I found the truth about life is not one paved road that I could easily down ride there into my destinations. But it's a thousand and endless ways with so many traffic signs and different stories. I got distracted and delusional. I taste a new experienced and fucked up in the end, nothing but never get into the main destination. Reminiscing those old times, like holy shit, how can I so fucked up. But, I don't know, if I rewrite those old times at what cost? And why? I feel like my life is not that important.

Love this video Jay! It was so calming and thought-provoking. Thank you for all your great content! (And btw, after a long offline hiatus, welshstreetpoet is back :) )

Amazing... I missed your videos.

What a beautiful video Jay! So much peace and wisdom.

Great video Jay!! Feeling apprehensive about heading home to the UK but this made me feel more at ease with returning ☺️🌞

thanks Jay, that is some really good advice! i remember moving away from home and how excited i was to finally live in a big city and to experience the big city life with all its wonders and fascinations. but i also remember coming back home again after a few months and how much i appreciated breathing fresh air, walking through fields and meadows and watching all the birds and squirrels. i had all that before but i had never looked at it as something special. PS: dog is a perfect name for a dog & she´s adorable

Hi Brother Jay ... I've been around the UK, via (Escape to the Country) my favorite UK show on Canadian tv. Doing better today. Hope all is well there. It looks beautiful where you are. Thanks for sharing this story.

Looks beautiful 😍 also wild is great book.

So peaceful to see your videos

love this video Jay... refreshing for everyone who has a shitty boss!!!... always appreciate your curse-words too!!! :)

This isn’t a paragraph about my life, but thank you so much for this bit at the end, especially from 12:50 onwards. I never thought of writing in this way-using just ten minutes each day and pulling just the smallest bits out which blossom into their own respective works. It makes the process feel unexplored and adventurous and guided. Thanks, Jay.

My life feels like a wild cocktail at the moment. Some sweet orange juice, some bitter fresh squeezed lemon, some hard hitting rum and a hint of something I can certainly taste but just not quite put a name on. Give it all a nice shake to mix things up to a confusing mess and there you go! Cheers! Great video, Jay, I had a good time thinking + writing about my life cocktail 🍹