HeyJaredOn the Outside (Looking In)
This is all about navigating towards belonging from feeling like an outsider, wandering through adventure and exploration, all via curiosity, courage and connection. Will you join me?
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A July update in August (opens the original)
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Hi there! I’m Karen, and here at On the Outside I write about navigating life with my compass of curiosity, courage and connection, going via adventure and healing. I live amongst the south Welsh mountains, with a hoard of books, a garden full of foxgloves, goldfinches and a gang of sparrows, drinking tea. Basically, a hobbit. Wandering, not lost. It is difficult to write when the feelings are too big, too all-consuming and life feels more like tripping from one thing to the next, in a bid to ge
What can you tell me in 10 minutes? (opens the original)
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Nothing is flowing from mind to hand to pen to page. I reach for an idea, I see a suggestion, and so I set a timer. Ten minutes. That’s all. Even I can do that. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1092" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/
Remembering the river's song (opens the original)
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It’s a wonderful thing, to awaken, and to awaken with a clear message in your mind, an answer to the problems, an antidote to the stresses suffered.I’m close to the end of a two-year journey, one I never really intended to embark on. A door opened when I was looking for any particular door, not that one specifically, and I stepped through. I’ve found myself pausing at points along this journey, wondering why the scenery looks so different from what I had imagined, why my companions are not peopl
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