HeyJaredJoAnn’s Substack
A newsletter collecting thoughts, books, kids, music, flowers, and all the things that keep us dancing forward in darkness. My current job is homeschooling four boys, and I talk about it. A bird of joy, trying to keep my head out of the sand.
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The Ministry of Chickens (opens the original)
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When I had a blank slate for a life and a lot of fear in my pocket I thought to myself, “What should I do?”. I recalled Annie Dillard with her coffee and cigarettes in a cabin in the middle of the end of the world. I rolled “make more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction” by Wendell Berry around in my soul for a bit. Then I flung myself into the country, into the closest thing to the middle of nowhere I could reach with my mother next door. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-i
Waterlily Warfare (opens the original)
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About a year ago exactly I was staring at a room sized painting by Monet. Waterlilies. It is housed in the Orangerie and the room is round, white and hushed with the ambient sound of humans trying to be quiet. It is a symbol of peace given by the artist after Armistice Day. Armistice is not a peace treaty, just a pause in the fighting. You can bury your dead. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fATf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/h
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