HeyJaredManifold Witness
Essays, poems, and musings on motherhood, nature, faith, delight, depression, and more.
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- Jul 26, 2026
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My Prairie Love Story (opens the original)
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Had my mom’s first wailing breaths been of Texas air instead of Oregon (a story for another day), I would have been the sixth generation of women born in Texas on my maternal side. However, my family moved to Kansas when I was three, and it was here I stayed. I like to think of myself as planted in Kansas with my roots trickling all the way down to North Texas where I was born—the southern tip of the Great Plains—like the notoriously long roots of the prairie plants themselves. But here’s the re
POEM: Brown Along the Edges (opens the original)
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This post has been sitting in my drafts for two weeks. I started writing it on the day that marked two years since a dear friend of mine lost her husband of forty years in a tragic accident. I had no idea that shortly after penning this draft, I’d be attending two funerals—both for individuals I did not have the privilege of knowing myself. It’s a different grief—the kind that is not your own but is on behalf of someone you love. The Bible tells us to weep with those who weep (Romans 12:15). It
Field Notes #1 - Summer (opens the original)
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To those who responded to my recent note saying you would love to see snippets of my current poems-in-progress, I am grateful for you! (Because gosh, I love Substack when it’s interactive, don’t you? It feels just a little bit more real.) Since then, I’ve been brainstorming how I might go about sharing that and landed on the idea to begin a new “series” of seasonal reflection. Seasonal, because I personally find so much fulfillment in aligning myself with the seasonality of th
POEM: "Buried Alive" (opens the original)
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