HeyJaredFrom Loneliness to Belonging
Musings on community, connection, and belonging. Written by Lauren Basler, former lonely girl, current "alcaldesa."
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Please Bother Me (opens the original)
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I can think of two friends who asked me for help this year… that’s it. Just two.Reading that seems shocking… but when I think about it, it kind of makes sense. Not many people seem to ask for help these days.One asked me to pick up some toys for her kids that she found on a Facebook group, from a house near mine. The other needed help moving. One request took me 20 minutes and the other took an entire evening, but they both had a similar impact on me.Neither time did I feel inconvenienced, but r
Collective Effervescence (opens the original)
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Last Saturday, twenty friends gathered on my rooftop to practice something none of them had ever heard of and I’m still kind of reeling from the fact that they trusted me to facilitate a practice that seemed so foreign to them.I told them to wear clothes they could move in and asked that they show up with an open mind.They arrived and found me in the kitchen, where we passed around lemon ginger shots. I watched my communities coalesce - people from the climbing gym, from Fuckup Nights, from danc
Friend Thursdays (opens the original)
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Twice a week, I know exactly who I’m going to see. Every Monday and Wednesday evening, I’m at the climbing gym with the same seven or eight people. I’m closer with some, and less so with others… but they’re genuinely all people that I’m eager to see. (I’ve not yet written about this element of my routine because the task genuinely feels gargantuan given how important it is to my sense of community and belonging at so many levels. Hang tight! This is one of my favorite elements of this sweet litt
Romanticizing My Solitude (opens the original)
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I’ve been practicing active meditation consistently (daily with a few exceptions) for the past three months and can honestly say it has changed my life.As someone who has historically been prone to worrying (I can be a real nervous nelly sometimes), this practice has helped me elect the present and connect with it deeply.In my experience, the present moment is where abundance lives. The world is our oyster. We get to make conscious, active choices about our lives and how we want to live them, an
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