HeyJaredGlorious Ordinary Podcast
Reflecting on who we think we are to find out who we really are. A look at universal themes through a personal lens and how mindfulness, meditation and self-awareness practices help. Attention really is everything. valeriespain.substack.com
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Make Something True (opens the original)
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Any creative work requires space and time to mentally meander, wantonly wander, desultorily daydream. This essay attempts to explain my writing process and the changes needed to sustain it. Writing essays consistently on Substack since 2023 has made me a better writer, and it has particularly helped me understand my writing process. Some writers outline and plan everything before they write—I figure out what I want or need to write by writing. The ability to see creative trueness has been with m
Nothing Special (opens the original)
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I’m in a phase, a turning point, a something… where the consequences of many life choices are converging, and old issues clamor to be acknowledged. Relationships are the most clamorous of all particularly the relationship I had with my mother. I acknowledged the anniversary of her death last week, but surprise(!) we are still in conversation and this postmortem connection has proved to be the most instructive of all. Nothing special is a Buddhist concept that says being ordinary is enough. No ne
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