HeyJaredGiving Up The Ghost
Life, lessons and the occasional breaking of things all with a decent soundtrack.
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Quietus Much (opens the original)
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I don’t speak Spanish, I should. I could throw a rock and hit Mexico from my back yard, or at least hear the clang when it hits a border patrol vehicle parked at the border for lunch. Half the people I work with are Spanish speaking and more than half of the folks I encounter out in the wild in my community are Hispanic or Latino. Yet, I can’t seem to find the time to pop open Duolingo while I’m on the pooper. But it’s a lovely language and it looks good in print. Me llamo Mud.This doesn’t reall
Funny how? I mean funny like I'm a clown? (opens the original)
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Substack inadvertently placed me in the top 100 movers and shakers in humor the other day. Maybe it was vertently? I don’t fucking know. But it in itself was funny.It’s funny because, well… algorithms. But it’s also funny because comedy has been a major factor in my life and I never really acknowledged it until recently.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ndQV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpubl
Forgotten But Not Gone (opens the original)
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Yes, I have been under a rock for a while. Thanks for asking. It’s been a strange handful of weeks with a few changes but mostly… shit is still the same. I guess I am popping up here to say hi, give a little love and break the seal to get things moving again.My last post was a repost in memory of one of my closest friends on this journey we call life, Grace. She served her time and has moved on to that place where good dogs go when they are done with our human bullshit.I did a repost because it
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