HeyJaredA Natural Drift
A Natural Drift is where I linger over stories about nature and fly fishing, recovery, art, family, teaching, and writing: where I might ponder about how we express the human experience.
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Morning Walk Diary (opens the original)
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My dog, Asher, and I are on our morning walk right now. Literally.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="4032" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN6w!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaw
Leave No Trace (opens the original)
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I had learned early in my backpacking life about “leave no trace” practices when you venture into the outdoors. Leave your campsite better than you found. Pick up any trash that others before you may have neglected to do. Take an extra little baggie or ditty bag to pack out your own snack wrappers or dinner packets. It wasn’t a difficult concept to grasp and Roger, the teacher who led the North Junior High School Mountain Club, emphasized it every trip.On one backpacking trip, I can’t remember t
Feeding the Machine (opens the original)
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From August of 2013 to July of 2018, I worked for the Colorado Department of Education as the content specialist in the Standards and Instructional Support office. As the Reading, Writing, and Communicating specialist, I facilitated work to support districts throughout the state as they implemented standards-based curriculum, sought out best instructional practices, and used standards-based assessments in literacy and English Language Arts.Part of that work at that time was working on the PARCC
Reminiscence: 08/16/24 (opens the original)
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In the photograph, I sit sandwiched between my sister and my brother on the trunk of Phil’s Plymouth Fury. Phil is 19, Deb is 17, and I am 13 which would place us in the summer of 1970. Phil makes rabbit ears behind my head. Deb sits with her hands folded in her lap. We are frozen in a specific moment in time.Phil purchased the car when he first started attending Colorado State. He would become a landscape architect later, visiting Colorado Springs only on occasion, his life taking him down othe
Annotations of a Journal (opens the original)
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The bold & italics excerpts below are pulled from the journal I kept in the late summer and early fall of 1983. Normal text are current reflections. I believe in the value of keeping journals. I’m not sure what I believe today about how long to keep them. I have traveled with these writings for 43 years. Time to say goodbye. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ruvp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3
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