JAINEE DIAL

JAINEE DIAL

JAINEE DIAL

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I offer creative writing, copywriting, and storytelling services for brands, individuals, and organizations. I've written for Teton Gravity, Filson, and most recently, Beside Magazine.

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Jainee Dial

Oct 11, 2019
3 min

Creative wyld

Do you ever get that pang of sadness after a big event? Do you know that overwhelming feeling of both exhaustion and happiness at having given yourself fully...

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Jainee Dial

Aug 19, 2019
2 min

DEATHVERSARY

A black hole of agony. That’s the only way to describe what if felt like. It’s been 5 years since Brad and I climbed to the top of a granite summit in Yosemi...

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Jainee Dial

Jul 25, 2019
1 min

the shearer's dance

This piece was written for Beside Magazine in July, 2019. With a burly build and broad frame, sheep shearer Mike Schuldt is the very picture of a prototypica...

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Jainee Dial

Mar 3, 2019
2 min

STAY

Brandi Carlile wrote a line in a song that stopped me dead in my tracks the other day: “Can you fight the urge to run for another day? You might make it fart...

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Jainee Dial

Jan 19, 2019
2 min

HUMILIATION

When I was in 5th grade I entered the school race. I’m pretty sure it was called the “Turkey Trot”. I was older and faster than most of my classmates and I w...

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Jainee Dial

Nov 27, 2018
2 min

ALASKA FIELD TRIP

I knew it would be wild here. And I like that word. WILD. Who doesn’t? I named my company after it. There is an out-of-control-ness and irreverence somehow w...

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Jainee Dial

Nov 13, 2018
2 min

resurrection

I didn’t believe in resurrection. For a very long time, I felt like my heart was lifelessly splattered on a hot black piece of pavement. I was certain that e...

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Jainee Dial

Jul 21, 2018
2 min

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED

She asked me, “what lessons have you learned this year?” I just stood there, all dumbstruck, words garbled and abstruse in my head. I wasn’t able to respond ...

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Jainee Dial

Apr 12, 2018
6 min

SHEAR 'N SHRED

The Helle Ranch sits in the moody high-altitude mountains of Southwestern Montana. This is likely the area of the state where the term “Big Sky Country” was ...

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Jainee Dial

Jan 25, 2018
4 min

CRUSHING

“You’re crushing it!” she said in an exuberant tone. I stared at her and for a moment I thought she’d notice the twitch in my eye — my body doesn’t know how ...

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Jainee Dial

Oct 11, 2017
2 min

A letter to the grieving

My dear sweet friend (you) (future you) (everyone), I feel helpless. Gutted. No phone conversation or in person exchange could ever, ever, get to the root of...

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Jainee Dial

Aug 15, 2017
2 min

INSTAREAL

That's me in my warehouse. Bad lighting. Nerdy frames because my eyes hurt lately. Not a beautiful outdoor landscape shot like you'd normally find in this ni...

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Jainee Dial

Jul 31, 2017
1 min

LOVE

It's easy to feel alone and it's hard to feel full, so I long for it - the romantic kind. And forget about it - the hidden kind. Think about the times you've...

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Jainee Dial

May 10, 2017
3 min

RISK & RESILIENCE: THE LANGUAGE OF HORSES

__ This story was originally written for and published in Filson Life There is a secret language that exists between horses and humans. Voices hold no value,...

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Jainee Dial

Dec 12, 2016
9 min

Life After Death: What I've Learned From Tragedy

__ This story was originally written for and published in Teton Gravity Research I sat in my bathroom in northern California and stared in the mirror. My eye...

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Jainee Dial

Sep 12, 2016
1 min

SERENE

This photo kind of screams SERENE. But I couldn't relax last night in Moab. I couldn't stop my flow of thoughts about business, logistics, insecurity, money,...

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Jainee Dial

Aug 24, 2016
2 min

DARK SIDE

We're culturally obsessed with closure. We have been taught to man up. Move on. Hide our feelings. Get over it. Worst of all, I have heard many many times th...

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Jainee Dial

Aug 22, 2015
6 min

FULL CIRCLE

I knew deep down, I had to be there. I knew there was only one path that would lead me to him, to his last moments, to the spot where he left this world. I w...

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