HeyJaredNotes from the Heartland
Notes from the Heartland is a newsletter exploring the texture of everyday life. Using discomfort as a guide, it tells stories of the mystical in the mundane, the extraordinary in the ordinary, and the treasure in all the seeming tedium of being human.
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Where Two or More Meet (opens the original)
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Dear Ones - A few nights ago, just as I was falling asleep, Freddi called to me from his room and told me he was scared. Dragging myself up the stairs - feeling a cold coming on, the pulsing of a sty in my eye, and a heavy, desperate need for sleep - I called, with questionable commitment - Okay, coming!We checked the closets, adjusted the doors, cleared the area under the bed and had some conversational hypnosis around the monster that was troubling him. As I got up to leave the room, imaging m
Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (opens the original)
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Dear Ones - Earlier this week I sat at the kitchen table with Freddi while he completed an art project and I studied Plato’s influence on Christian church fathers like Origen and mystics like Teresa de Avila. Colored pencils scratched, cicadas buzzed, and Dolly Parton sang in the background.It's been a long dark nightAnd I've been a-waitin' for the morningIt's been a long hard fightBut I see a brand new day dawning.Receiving the moment, I felt my heart squeeze and my eyes blur with tears. I had
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