HeyJaredCreative Living Diaries
Essays on the creative, interior, human life—hoping to please my inner 16-year-old.
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- 11
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Jul 14, 2026
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how true support works (opens the original)
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unidentified (opens the original)
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what are we doing here? (opens the original)
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I’ve been reading old journals while I write the New York stories. That’s decades’ worth of my own handwriting, telling me things about myself and the life I’ve lived so far.Sometimes I cry and slam the notebook shut, and sometimes I’m swept with a deep gratitude for the whole thing. Even the trauma. Even the years that didn’t go the way I wanted. It’s all life. And it’s all beautiful in its complexity.This week we stopped for an ambulance at an intersection, and a stranger’
be the tender (opens the original)
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love is like a butterfly (opens the original)
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