HeyJaredAir Hunger
A lung transplant recipient asks how we reimagine a meaningful life if the one we envisioned vanishes.
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Moving toward Abundance (opens the original)
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It’s been one year since I started writing “Air Hunger.” I’m grateful to have you traveling with me as I bump along on this confounding, impossible, miraculous path.It’s a moment of transition for me, too, as I prepare for a move I’ve been contemplating for some time. Two weeks ago, I visited the town in Western Massachusetts to which my oldest daughter and her family recently relocated. I was already sure that moving to remain near them made sense for me, but I needed some real-world experience
Once a Transplant... (opens the original)
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Since I moved to the United States when I was eight, there are parts of me that have always felt like a transplant—in my perceptions of cultural differences, in my aesthetics, in my relationships to language and landscape and above all, people. The experience of coming here from another country left me feeling dislocated, with a perpetual hunger to belong.I wrote about this a bit in my “raw poem” called Acute Rejection, that spilled out in a single sitting while I was waiting anxiously for the r
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