"Here we go, into the unknown. As are all things"
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I'm Dan Johansen. Joyfully alive. Poet. Storyteller. Cycle breaker. #DFJ
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I'm what you might call a "slash". Yes, I'm a poet. I'm also a businessperson and entrepreneur. I'm a father. I'm a traveler. I seek - and offer - joy within every minute of this life that I'm so grateful to have. And I know it's all going to end someday. So I create. The same way I breathe. The same way I love. With all of me.
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READER PRAISE
"I am serious - hold your heart because it's going to feel as though the author has reached in and squeezed with the biggest hugs possible. The back cover is a solid indication of what's inside. This is a book that deserves to be savored word by word, with your significant other or alone. I read it to myself, to the parts of myself that have needed to hear these words for a long time. Gushing? I'm sorry. I can't help it. The author said this book is for those who love love. If you don't yearn for love when you buy this book, you will by the time you finish reading it."
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"At times you can smell Bukowski in the distance at the bar, albeit a happier version, but more often it pulls in the simplicity of ways we can describe complex issues of love, loss and self without the need of voluminous sonnets. In the end, it is a reminder that love is a choice, one worthy to be made again and again."
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​"Dan Johansen is truly the poet for my soul"
