HeyJaredComing of age is not soft work
An auto-ethnographic exploration of the messy and beautiful parts of growing up.
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Montgomery, Alabama is not a museum (opens the original)
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Montgomery, Alabama has an energy to it. If you live here, you know what I mean. We live in the past and the present simultaneously. Often times both bleeding into each other. Montgomery has a special warmth to it. A slow, sensual, joyful, liberating hum to it. but also…It’s a bit dystopian to live in a place people come to be reminded of the atrocities of the past. It can be suffocating at times to never feel free from the past.And yet somebody has to do this work.I’ve lived long enough to unde
The Loneliness (opens the original)
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