HeyJaredLiving To Stay Awake
I write vulnerable thought pieces that gently nudge you to not just live your life, but to be awake in it.
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A Cloud to Keep (opens the original)
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I have a confession, that frankly, I don’t actually feel any embarrassment confessing. I, like millions of others, love Taylor Swift’s music (new tracks dropped this week).For me, it’s about her lyrics.Little phrases of divinity, perfectly woven. These treasures are not as prevalent in her radio hits, but more-so on her lesser known, tormented tracks.Like the show Friends, where I’ve seen each episode probably tens of times, yet still laugh when the perfectly timely, brilliantly expressed jokes
Whacking the Weeds (opens the original)
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About two years ago, at six, my son developed a severe stutter, which is unusually late for an onset. We had always struggled with his intelligibility, and he had been in speech therapy for years, but he had never stuttered. Until he did. And it ramped up in severity quite suddenly.Fear shaped my first response. Will this go away? What does this mean for his future? How can I keep it from getting worse?When he got stuck on a word, I frequently interrupted him. Sometimes I told him to calm down o
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