HeyJaredIn Tending
A newsletter and community exploring the intersection of socially-engaged Buddhism and the messy realities of modern parenting/caregiving.
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Twelve questions to ask when everything sucks (opens the original)
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"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.”— Dolly PartonThe recent demise of Dolly Parton, who struggled with many health issues following an extended stint of caregiving, illustrates how important it is to balance care for others with care for self—and not to put it off until it’s too late.1 This has become increasingly apparent to me as a sandwich generation caregiver.
How to be in the in-between (opens the original)
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“My barn having burned downI can now see the moon.” — Mizuta Masahide, 17th century Japanese poet and samurai Here in the Northern Hemisphere, I can feel a chill in the air, and I know that change is coming. (It is always coming.)My body knows. It tries to help me by keeping one foot in the past. It remembers all the seasons of change that have come before, and braces for what’s next. It remembers, for example, when I left my first career in journali
Workshop Replay: Mindfulness for Parents and Caregivers (opens the original)
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“I think we’re all going to need to be braver than some of us have been prepared to be. But brave in a sustainable way — remaining with our children, our families, and our communities. We need to build this new way of living together — how it functions, handles conflict, makes decisions, eats and loves, grieves and plays. And we can’t do that by burning out.” — Mushim Patricia IkedaThis post contains replay materials for a workshop I offered this week to the In Tending communi
Five-minute mindfulness practices for busy caregivers (opens the original)
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Everything you see has its rootsin the unseen world.The forms may change,yet the essence remains the same.Every wondrous sight will vanish,every sweet word will fade.But do not be disheartened,The Source they come from is eternal—growing, branching out,giving new life and new joy.— RumiDespite the beautiful weather that surrounds us now, the last few months have been difficult ones for
Where climate change meets the parental mental load (opens the original)
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Note: Below is an updated version of a post I wrote in 2023, when Canadian wildfires turned the sky above New York City a terrifying amber-red. At the time, our family lived just north of the Bronx, and hurriedly bought air filters to keep our then-four-year-old son safe inside. This year, Canadian wildfires once again are sending their smoke across borders, impacting the parents in this community across a swath of thousands of miles—from New England, where I live now, to as far away as <a href=
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