HeyJaredLeaning into Light
seeing through Love's eyes, to illuminate the beauty of the human spirit and transmute pain into passion
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How to Die in Love (opens the original)
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Let me start by saying thank you for being here. Thank you for being on the other end of my Love letters. The longer you’ve been around, the more you know: that is what I write. Thank you for being such a lovable presence on the other end of my heart’s pen. Note, the photos in this piece honor my lifelong art form :: penned intimacy. After decades of impassioned personal writing, in 2017, I created my own line of cards. They sold out and I’ve not done a reprint. Someday? <a href="https://open.sp
I Wasn't Born to Play Dead (opens the original)
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This morning, I awoke to a text message from a friend who said I'm one of the most “heart forward” people she knows. Her kind words held extra weight because of some recent tension I’ve experienced in friendship. Chances are, many of you have been called “too much” at some point in your life. Too boisterous, too lively, too emotional, too sensitive, too deep.Too… human? Many years ago, a close friend who respected my depth, and often met me in deep conversation, grew tired of that part of me and
Feeling What's Real (opens the original)
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Dear readers: Today I want to tell you that in 15 years with a blog, not a single word of my writing has ever come from AI. It feels important to share this in a day & age when real, live voices in real, breathing bodies from real, feeling souls are globally tempted to let artificialities infuse the fields of our attention. My own heart’s pen has always driven this bus, and just like Rosa Parks, it won’t be moving to the backseat. ✍🏼 💋 In my last post, <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/lean
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