HeyJaredChronically Chill
A collection of words for going slow, staying soft, and finding zen in a world of chaos. Prose, poetry, and microdoses of joy.
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Back to the Garden (opens the original)
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In the early days of planting my summer crops, when the tomato plants stood hardly a foot high and the marigolds had yet to bloom around them, I dreamt I was in the garden with my mother.The garden in my dream was far more prolific than my own, replete with towering sunflowers and lush with ripening fruits and vegetables; a fantasy garden, to be sure. Nor was the mother I dreamt of the same as when I lost her, neither in years or in temperament. She was the same age as I was in the dream, softer
44 Trips around the Sun (opens the original)
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Earlier this month, while taking my 44th trip around the sun, I found myself acutely aware of the fact that my mother wasn’t here to see it, to celebrate alongside me, to stick 44 candles into a cake from Gerard’s down the street and sing Tavalodet Mobarak, a far superior version of the happy birthday song.This wasn’t the first birthday I’d spent without her presence in my life, but it was the first in which she was no longer living, a distinction endemic to the grief process, one that holds con
Sometimes you have to be quiet (opens the original)
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For the past six months I have been very, very quiet.As someone who’s never been accused of shyness, someone who’s been writing consistently and unabashedly on the internet since starting a blog in 2008, someone with a laugh so loud and so raucous it’s often been a source of embarrassment for me, this is quite the feat, indeed. And while at first, my absence here (and on all digital platforms) was intentional, it slowly began to morph into something else altogether. It’s true that I’ve largely d
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