HeyJaredExiled Heart
Ramblings of a man born outside the Garden. Exploring the world through my practice of writing.
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We Must Be Reborn in Wonder (opens the original)
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We are entering an age of storytelling. Every story we’ve ever been told enamors us with the vivid imagery of folk heroes, romance, landscapes, creatures, persons, adventure, and a myriad of persons. What if I told you that those stories contain only the intimations that our present disenchanted world contains in further plentitude, and lay hidden just … Read more
Fifteen Years of Dreaming About a Place I've Never Seen (opens the original)
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As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. | Psalm 42:1 On the far side of the world a fern grows to the size of a tree1. The dark trunk comes up slender under a ferny crown that shoots forty feet in the air, and every new frond is born coiled and green. It sits still until spring. The first kiwi naturalists in Aotearoa kept a trick involving its smaller cousin, the silver fern2
The Poverty of the Modern Traveler (opens the original)
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"They are familiar with every spot at Niagara, or Saratoga, but cannot give an idea of the western part of their own State, except as they have scantily derived it from others."— Henry E. Colton, Mountain Scenery, 1859Growing up, I had the ordinary vacation itinerary of a Southern working-class family. Both of my parents, and especially my father, gave decades of their life to the carpet industry in northwest Georgia. When it came time for vacations our typical choices were Rock City, Gatlinburg
The Metaphysics of the World Cup (opens the original)
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There are few events in the modern human experience that capture humanity’s collective imagination quite like the World Cup. It’s difficult to come up with scenes that matter so much, to so many. My mind can only conjure events like World Youth Day or other religious events that come close. Catholicity, in its purest sense, is the only thing that approaches this comparable geographic and civilizational universality. I grew up playing soccer religiously as a young man and stopped playing cold tur
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