HeyJaredLeaving Behind Gray
Human efforts to make existing feel a little bit more like living.
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Heat Wave (opens the original)
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This is the first summer I have spent in L.A., despite having been here since 2023. The heat, as expected, has been relentless, but this week it has felt unforgiving. It turns out that there’s been an ongoing heat wave.L.A. heat is known to be dry. It beats down and blinds you. But this week, it’s been humid. I know humidity. I know humidity from the East Coast to India. Thunderstorms, mosquitoes droning, those damn cicadas. I thought they were supposed to come out every thirteen years, until I
My Country California (opens the original)
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In April, I started writing something about what Los Angeles was to me. I wrote with the assumption that, with my graduation, I was leaving the city forever, and that I would move back east until I figured out what came next. I struggled with the isolation of being one of few of my friends graduating. What follows is only a small part of the way I felt at the time.I always tell people that I don’t believe that I can fairly say that I live in Los Angeles, and broadly, in California. Of the past t
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