HeyJaredMERKAT ART
I am a Great Lakes Watershed writer & artist. Here you'll find my essays, original work, and notes on the creative process. Also: Flora! Fauna! Feminism!
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A Poem after Wendell Berry (opens the original)
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Dear Readers,<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="441.406711409396" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7-IQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bcfa1d2-e5c4-4c
DOLLY & WENDELL & THE REST OF US (opens the original)
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First things first! FREE! THIS FRIDAY! If you’re in the area, come on out and join and me for what’s shaping up to be a glorious evening!:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1350" src="https://substackcdn.com/imag
RENDER/SURRENDER (opens the original)
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Last week I was camping [glamping] on an island in Northern Ontario. The Baba Yaga hut in which we slept is awash in unsealed spaces, openings just wide enough for sunlight or mosquitos or record-breaking smoke from wildfires to seep through. At what point does the meter move from exposing my children to the wonders of wilderness! to exposing my children to wild harm? This is the never-ending question, on repeat—I don’t mean this as a time-worn parenting riddle; I mean: specifically, right now,
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