HeyJaredGloriously Okay
Reflections on womanhood in midlife, joy, grief, love and life as I live it from my kosher kitchen.
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Not Kosher Anymore (opens the original)
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It took me years to realize this sticker had no place in my life anymore.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="411" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lizT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.ama
What Trying Harder Can’t Fix (opens the original)
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I was raised to believe in Trying Harder.No one ever told me there were some things trying harder couldn’t fix; I’ve been learning it the hard way.It can’t fix grief.It can’t fix Other People.Thanks for reading Gloriously Okay! <div class="f
I've never mourned like this (opens the original)
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Sitting on the floor this morning (on cushions, please, my back) davening*, I felt weird.The words of thankfulness don’t match the crocs and yesterday’s clothes vibe, right?Then I thought how people sitting Shiva do this exact thing: live with their unwashed hair and torn clothes and broken heart but also stand and praise Hashem*.That’s a serious paradox to live in.Even though I sat Shiva for both my parents, it wasn’t quite like that for me. Physical disability and dementia changed my Mom into
Nothing I can Do, or is there? (opens the original)
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When your Person dies, your home is destroyed, you’re forced into a new chapter of life you never wanted, never agreed to.Tisha B’Av is the model for how you deal with that. There’s no skipping the shock, the tears, the horror. Loss calls first of all for silence.We find it hard to just shut up. People sitting shiva have to deal with endless moronic comments and questions … but truly all you’re called upon to do as a visitor is show up. To Be There With Them. Not to Do Anything. There is nothing
Broke and cold, but never alone (opens the original)
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My living situation and first temp job both ran out half a year after I made aliya. With even less than the next-to-nothing income I’d had before, I now had rent to pay, and hardly any savings left. I’d never not had what I needed before. I was nearly broke, and scared. But also desperate and that made me brave. I walked into a temp agency, said I’d come to work as a translator. They must’ve needed people as badly as I needed a paycheck because they put me to work right away, no tests.That was a
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