HeyJaredDipti Vyas
I write to untangle big feelings, chase clarity, and occasionally trick hope into showing up, usually with coffee and a sense of humor.
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Return of the Breath (opens the original)
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This was inspired by a prompt from back on December 16, 2025. In a couple of days—depending on which calendar you follow—Hindus around the world will mark the beginning of Pitru Paksha, a fifteen-day period in the Hindu calendar devoted to honoring ancestors through offerings of food, water, and rice, often left out for crows, who are regarded as messengers between the living and the dead.Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published<p
I Did the Math (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIt was supposed to be an ordinary meeting. A conversation. A new person. Someone interesting I would probably see again. I didn’t expect the small shifts. Noticing when your name appears on my phone. The slight rearranging of a day because of a conversation I didn’t know I was waiting for. And then there are my knees. They seem to have noticed something before I did. I have thought about the years between us. Of course I hav
Hydromaculophobia (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIt started, as all my best neuroses do, with a single unhinged thought at 2 a.m.: what if the sink never dries. At some point the sink stopped being a sink and became a surface I was responsible for defending. Now, decades later, I have a system. The system is: nobody touches my sink. I have never once let dishes sit in that sink. Not when my children were small and underfoot, not when they were teenagers who left half a gla
After Yesterday (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI wore the championship shirt. I did my part. Apparently, Michigan did not get the memo. Western Michigan came to town and reminded us that football is not played with reputation. There were moments when I thought… okay, this is where we wake up. We didn't. Or maybe we did and immediately went back to sleep. I have been a Michigan fan long enough to know that hope is a dangerous thing. You watch the first quarter and make ex
You Knew (opens the original)
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As we prepare to celebrate Janmashtami, the birth of Lord Krishna, I found myself thinking less about the Krishna we worship and more about the Krishna who stood on a battlefield and had to make impossible choices.Karna has always been one of the Mahabharata’s most complicated figures for me. His loyalty to Duryodhana, even while knowing that Duryodhana was often wrong, has never felt as simple as choosing good over evil.This is an imagined conversation between Karna and Lord Krishna. Not a rete
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