HeyJaredLetters to My Generation
Letters to My Generation is an on-going project, first started in 2010, following the repeated requests from dear friends and trouble makers to write down what I thought about what is happening in the world.
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Twenty-five Years After Tuesday (opens the original)
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Some of us can still barely speak of that day—how normal it was when we woke up that morning, the clear September sky, the mundanity of brushing teeth and going to the subway and heading to work. It took many of us over a decade to get through any 11th September that followed that Tuesday in September without breaking down, without panic attacks and surges of memories—the worst memories: towers burning and belching black smoke into the sky, and then gone; ambulances rushing up Broadway, trails o
A World Made New (opens the original)
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The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.—RumiAnger is an easy ocean in which to sink, in which to lose one self completely. It is easy and sometimes joyful to drown in outrage, as I longed to do when I read that our military had bombed a wedding in Iran last night, one more in a long line of war crimes committed with impunity. It is easy to lose one self in outrage and anger, which can easily become apathy or nihilism. To seek love, which
Wondering at Marvel (opens the original)
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Captivating—the sun glowing crimson over the western horizon. Evening after transfixed evening I wondered at the marvel, a small kernel of alarm in my chest. West of the Rockies this portends fire, smoke rising in the sky, but here on the Great Plains it is simply one more sun going down, like all the others that have gone down before it. And so I set alarm aside and gave myself entirely to the wonder of so much beauty—effortless and unaware—not needing my awe or reasoning.The same can be said o
The Big Red Bogeyman (opens the original)
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Since returning to the United States a week and a half ago, I have heard “commie Mamdani” (in person, not on state regime media FOX) at least a half-dozen times. The reference has, in every instance, come from someone in their sixties. Someone raised during the Cold War and who believes that Dr. Anthony Fauci worked with China to engineer COVID-19 as a ploy to spread Communism within the United States. By contrast, the near constant meltdowns by long time Democratic strategist James Carville sin
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