HeyJaredEarth School
Lessons from life on earth. Writing about slow living, late blooming, and unlearning.
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Make a Decision Already (opens the original)
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I could have floated forever. My body finally felt like my body again, levitating to the surface like bread rising. Pillowy and on the verge of dissolving. The water was blue calcite, pale and clear to the bottom. The way my ears felt underwater, like every unwelcome thought could be pacified, dulled away by the sound of I don’t know what exactly–water flowing through the hallway of my mind, murmuring inside my head? I was in the Aegean sea for the first time. I had told you I wasn’t ready to ta
Buying a New Bikini Broke My Brain (opens the original)
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I’ve spent the past few months trying to buy a new bikini–a task I imagined to be relatively straightforward. The fact that it has taken me MONTHS to complete said task is evidence enough that it was not in fact, straightforward.Living in San Diego, you’d think I would own multiple swimsuits, but I’ve had the same one for the past five years. It’s sporty, it’s secure, it’s modest enough for all occasions, it does the job. But I was imagining myself on the beaches of Greece, hoping for something
To Everything That Feels Unknowable (opens the original)
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I can hardly write about anything besides longing. All the words that spill from me–when they come–are usually about something that is missing. An ache, a shape, a distance. I don’t know if I’ve always been a yearner, but I have a tendency to want for all that could be/might be/should be possible. I suppose this makes me a little bit dissatisfied with everything–a quality I don’t love about myself. Then again, it ensures I am rarely complacent, that I am trying to seek ways to grow and change. A
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