HeyJaredmothering Nature
I write about Mother Nature, the nature of becoming and being a mother, and mothering Nature. About the nature of. (Not a typo - that's just where that sentence opens).
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The New York Times never prints my letters (opens the original)
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You can listen to me read this if you would like:The NYTimes never prints my letters. Not yet, I should say.My eldest daughter, now eight, started telling me to about the ‘power-of-yet’ when she was five. Through her clear-eyed teachings, I understand the power of yet is a belief system where the door to possibility remains always open and each of us is to take action to manifest our own not-yet somedays. Somehows. To convert them into now days and knowhows.(By the way: I should warn you that th
Goldie the Goat and Africa Bowl (opens the original)
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As usual, you can listen to me read this post:After almost 2 months away from Kenya (and Substack), I’m back. I tried to describe the many beds and zip codes of our annual migration back to the U.S. in We-Didn’t-Start-The-Fire pentameter, but that was too high of a syllabic bar to clear. Plus the rhyming got me and it was boring and listy without the tune. And, umm…whatever Billy Joel may say, it seems we did start the fire. Fires. So.many.fires.We Watzes<a class="footnote-anchor" href="#footnot
Fire(works) (opens the original)
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A quick note: I may or may not publish here again until September. We’ll see how the spirit moves me. We’re aiming for a screen-free summer for our kids and I am trying to embody that too. So…that’s that. You can listen to me read this post here:In her first Wednesday art club at her new school, Clara used chalk pastels to draw a just-lit match.It’s hanging in her room amongst many pieces of artwork. She’s quite prolific. So is Nora.(My mom used to have my brother and I choose just one picture t
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