HeyJaredBig Little Things
I am an avid note-taker in words and visuals. My Pakistani-Polish heritage influences my occasional writing of essays and food memoir. Beyond the page, I love making jam as a way to preserve fruit beyond its season.
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45. Season (opens the original)
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The seasons, the solstices and equinoxes that mark their beginnings are my favourite markers of time. Some say that to live in rhythm with nature requires living in it. That city living at best dilutes and at worst severs that relationship. That has not been true for me, and it is certainly not true of living in a city that is brimful of parks, squares, wetlands, reservoirs and commons. A city whose green spaces are called its lungs.I am never not amazed by the quietness inside Hyde Park – a gre
44. Eclipse (opens the original)
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There are things I will never forget. Some, because they are terrifying or terrible like the Kashmir Earthquake in 2005. Others, because they are awe and wonder, like the total eclipse in 1999 experienced from a coach journey. The specifics escape me – as to whether I viewed it through glasses or a makeshift device. I had thought we were on the continent but it was in England, at Greenwich, where the meridian of time lies. A family of four headed to Brussels, Paris and Amsterdam. We had stopped
43. Drought (opens the original)
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Grass the texture of cactus spines. Not that soft verdure that I have known in England. Close cropped velvet of nature. The colour of straw – desperately dry, brittle and quick to kindle. It is spiky to sit on. Drought has been declared in half of England. A hosepipe ban has been imposed in places. I wonder what the country looks like from the sky, and when I think this thought, the algorithm shows it to me. Swathes of land scorched by the heat and sun.The announcement of a hosepipe ban in my bo
42. Seeing (opens the original)
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In Room 7, I witness two women photograph No 14 (Browns over Dark). Multiple efforts are made to change the light and exposure on their camera phones so that it bears resemblance to reality. There is a marked difference between android and iPhone — the one with the iPhone takes one image and moves on, while the one with the android spends several minutes manipulating exposure and light and taking multiple shots. I wonder what Rothko would make of this effort to render on screen colour perceived
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