HeyJaredfield notes from the spine
Writer and human-rights lawyer. Argentina and wherever the work takes me. Field Notes from the Spine: essays from war zones, heartbreak zones, and the nervous system. Reviewing Everything when inspiration knocks art, books, food, films.
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It’s out! (opens the original)
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Some of you read the seed of this piece here months ago, when it was only an idea, a single scene about learning to sit on a bulletproof vest because the shooting comes from below. It grew. Bamyan, Gardez, Kabul. Shoe prints on the ceiling of a cave. A dog named Disco. The full essay is out now in Sneaker Wave Magazine, and it is a better essay because of McKenzie Watson-Fore from , who edited it with precision and care, the kind of editing that makes you sound more like yourself. Sneaker Wave p
Knots of Ignorance [belonging, balance and uncertainty series VII] (opens the original)
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Since spring I’ve been living in transit mode carrying around some things to help me feel at home, including a silk pillow case. This is one of the first steps of belonging I wrote about a while ago: the body relaxes and stops asking if it’s allowed to exhale. The transit is ending though I don’t know when it ends. Sometime next week, sometime at the end of the month. My whole body has been dealing with this. Better to say, it’s holding it. Knots, several of them, from my neck down to my lower b
Things That Were Going to Happen [belonging and uncertainty series VI] (opens the original)
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The essay for this Sunday isn’t ready yet. It’s moving around, and so I am. In the last ten days I’ve slept in seven different beds. Travelling isn’t something unusual for me, but many other things have been moving underneath.I was discussing yesterday with a friend about how much the past several months I’ve practiced acceptance to all the uncertainty around. There were many things about to happen, and they haven’t happened, and some of them won’t happen at all. I’ve spent months quietly rearra
Could You Offer More? [belonging and uncertainty series V] (opens the original)
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The Grammar Does the Rest (opens the original)
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