HeyJaredFootnotes from the Flipside
Thoughts & ramblings about life laced with positivity. I enjoy sharing stories, poetry and photography that highlight the beauty and sacredness of life.
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Wisdom From a Starbucks Cup (opens the original)
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Something has been stirring at the bottom of my soul in recent weeks. I’ve been thinking about the fact that in the past few years I’ve been going through some stuff – all kinds of life stuff from fantastic to soul-sucking. My life changed dramatically about five years ago. That was when I quit my job and attempted to figure out who I was in a completely new stage of life. I found a big, buried part of me when I started writing again. That process of returning to my love and passion opened a par
What Comes After (opens the original)
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It’s been about ten days since Spokane was overtaken by wildfires and 1000 structures were burned to the ground. On Saturday, August 1, winds carried flames into the city and many of the surrounding areas. I shared that story in my last post: Between Two Fires . We are now dealing with what remains and attempting to rebuild a sense of normalcy all while sifting through the ashes.I am seeing incredible stories of people helping people, offering shelter and supplies for displaced families.I see ex
Between Two Fires (opens the original)
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The past few days in our Spokane, Washington community, we have experienced the worst of nightmares. We have had a very hot and dry spring and summer and those of us who have lived in the area for awhile felt the danger coming. For a week or so before the first of August, every weather agency started sounding warning bells about a large wind event predicted to come our way. It came and was even more extreme than they forecasted.I understood the warnings. All my internal alarms warned me to be pa
800 Fires (opens the original)
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Where I live in the Inland Northwest in the greater area of the Pacific Northwest we have five seasons: Spring, Summer, Fire Season, Fall and Winter. We arrived a bit early in Fire Season this year and when I was challenged to write a poem around the sense of smell, wildfire smoke rose to the top - pardon the pun. This is the poem that was inspired by the many, many fires currently burning across the US and Canada. Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedPungent,
We The People (opens the original)
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Happy 250th, USA! We’re essentially a baby country compared to many, but 250 is a lot of years to navigate becoming. It’s been messy. Mistakes were made along the way. Perhaps the founding fathers would like to have seen some things go differently. But here we are still striving, still messy, more unsettled on who we should be than we ever have been.I could spend a lot of time talking about our more troubling characteristics, but instead this is a celebration of all the good things we are. It’s
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