HeyJaredIn The Flesh
follow the adventures of an ex-priest who is learning to navigate the world all over again exploring the intersections of faith, queerness, community, and the sacredness of everyday life.
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Sukkot (opens the original)
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Saturday the little kid and I went to a friend’s Sukkot party at their big queer poly farm. There were beautiful silver chickens, horses making funny faces, goats everywhere, geese making it very clear how they felt about visitors. Let me say clearly, I am not now, and never have been, Jewish. All of my understanding comes from friends and things I have read. I’m not sure I’m even Christian right now, but I still want to be careful of the particularly yucky practice of stuffing Christian meaning
Last Day of Summer (opens the original)
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Yesterday I went with the little kid to meet some friends at a lake right outside of Portland. The morning was grey and cloudy and cold. My trust issues around weather predictions, made me suspicious that it would get as sunny and beautiful as it ended up being. These are the best kinds of friends to meet up with. They had two inflated paddleboards, a little grill with hotdogs, the sun shade, the sand toys. I rolled in with an eight pack of sparkling water and a smile. They even had an extra pai
cold as fall (opens the original)
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Has someone made a word yet for the feeling you have when an old friend and an ex-lover that you haven’t talked to in years dies and you find out days after the fact on Facebook?And is there a word for the way that the clouds look on a day that they will never see? And maybe because they were only 3 months younger than you, you want to scream nobody that young should just die? Even though you’ve already had plenty of friends younger than this die. And is there a word for the color of sunlight th
my new boss (opens the original)
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The little kid started preschool this week and so I declared it to be my first week of "work." There are so many things I want to do. All kinds of projects I'm working on. I'm trying to get my art photographed and up on a website, even though the art studio isn't all put together yet either, projects inside a projects. I'm trying to make real progress on a novel I’ve been working on for years, or give up and just start on a new one. I'm putting together my schedule for Spiritual Direction for th
just like that (opens the original)
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You are sitting by the river, and the sun is sparking off the water, and halo-ing the leaves that glow on the branches. Filaments of spider web lace the air.Just like that. And the little kid is throwing rocks into the river. And the light illuminates his golden haira filthy cherub casting the thirteenth stone. Just like thatYou are sitting in a chair that was yet another gift of this summerand the breeze whispers against your skinand the river amuses itself with the rocksjust like that. And jus
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