HeyJaredFaith With Life
My musings on crafting life to honor the ancestor I'm becoming, centering connection, belonging and community with those I love, while rewilding myself, making space for me and mine and helping others cultivate the spaces they actually want to be in.
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Into the Unknown (opens the original)
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The last time I was on an airplane with Jaedon, he was 12. His siblings were 10 and 7. Two adults, three kids, an airport, an airplane… it was a lot! help please?We signed up for disability support, but that seems confined to having a wheelchair, and Jaedon kept leaving his wheelchair to run off into the wilds of the airport. “one, two, three..” was my steady mantra, counting heads every 60 seconds. On the plane, J couldn’t quite run, but he did a few brisk walks down the aisle, towards the door
Let's pretend! (opens the original)
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For several weeks, I had 2 active leases: one in New York, where I hadn’t yet told my landlord I was leaving, one in Jamaica, an apartment I’d seen only once, signed before I’d worked out most of the move details. All I had was a knowing that I was really ready to trust.Long before I was certain about everything, I started pretending and imagining into the future. Let’s pretend we’re moving in a year, I told myself. What would we need? No detailed research. And this question helped me act, in th
Like when I couldn't find the fridge! (opens the original)
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Laura Kigweba and I started in the deep end for this conversation. We’re both trained in spiritual accompaniment, and the ‘fast and deep’ of this conversation was, in a real sense, us accompanying each other. Well, I was mostly the one being accompanied. We went the sometimes unconscious stuff underneath so much of what we do. So prepare for us to probe the psychological, ancestral, spiritual… so conversations with my mother, conversations with God.Leave a comment</s
Good and Beautiful (opens the original)
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It’s mango season here in Jamaica and one of the delights I was most looking forward to as I planned my gap year, is eating a proper mango that smelled like a mango (what is happening to the supermarket mangoes??? Where’s the smell???)So I’ve had a mango with my coffee for breakfast almost every day for 6 weeks.Enjoy vicariously!
I'm the villain?? (opens the original)
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One of the harder decision points about my gap year was leaving my younger two (adult) kids. The dynamics in our relationship had been changing over the past year, and I moved from being a trusted support to someone to be avoided. Sometimes it was in big moments, often it was in the slow shutting down, shutting out, until I felt like an outsider of the community of collective care that we had built together.As I shared with Beck in our conversation belowI know the textbook version: this is what
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